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Book reviews will consist of two elements - a one paragraph narrative
review of the work, and a numerical rating from 1 to 10. A narrative review may be
written by any previous guest at Prospect Hill (and we've had many book worms as
guests). Narrative reviews should be kept to 300 to 500 words maximum. Each
narrative review must be accompanied by a numerical rating from 1 (one of the worst books
I've ever read) to 10 (one of the best books I've ever read). Narratives and
numerical ratings should be sent to me by e-mail, and must include the title and Author of
the book, Publisher and date of publication, and the full name and town of residence of
the person submitting the review, The reviews published to the web site will include
the first name only of the reviewer and city of residence.
We'll accept reviews on any book, regardless of publishing date, however the reviewer must have read the book within the six months prior to writing the review.
The books which I am
currently reading or are under my desk waiting, are:
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson The biography of
the founder of Apple Computer Company.
Who Stole The American Dream by Hedrich Smith.
An analysis of the 50 years of change in the American way of life
Anyone checking the list below might be able to deduce what I like to read. Note the absence of Romance, Fantasy, Sci-Fi and Family trilogies. So given that, if you have any good suggestions . . . let me know!
Index of
Reviews
Click on the name of the book below to read the review.
You
might think that most of the books I read score pretty high on my scale of 10,
well, not true! It so happens that when I read a book which bores me,
which is poorly written or
which I just don't like, (and there are some), I don't bother to finish it and
don't write a review. So this listing consequently reflects for the most
part, books which I
have liked.
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The Black House by Peter May ********** March Violets by Philip Kerr ********** Hitler's Peace by Philip Kerr ********** Prague Fatale by Philip Kerr ********** The Help by Kathryn Stockett ********** Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay ********** The Paris Wife by Paula McLain ********** Fall of Giants by Ken Follett ********** American Assassin by Vince Flynn ********** The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson ********** Protect and Defend by Vince Flynn ********** The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer ********** The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson ********** Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel ********** Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen ********** The Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst ********** The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid ********** A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini ********** Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky ********** Arthur & George by Julian Barnes ********** The Lincoln lawyer by Michael Connelly ********** One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez ********** War Trash by Ha Jin ********** The Reader by Bernhard Schlink ********** The News From Paraguay by Lily Tuck ********** Angels & Demons by Dan Brown ********** Bel Canto by Ann Patchett ********** The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency byAlexander McCall Smith ********** The Birth Of Venus by Sarah Dunant ********** Paranoia by Joseph Finder ********** The da Vinci Code by Dan Brown ********** Our Lady Of The Forest by David Guterson ********** The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ********** Atonement by Ian McEwan ********** The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen ********** The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd ********** Red Rabbit by Tom Clancy ********** The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold ********** A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley ********** Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier ********** A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole ********** The Testament by John Grisham ********** The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood ********** The Human Stain by Philip Roth ********** Close Range by Annie Proulx ********** In The Fall by Jeffrey Lent ********** The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx ********** Corelli's Mandolin by Louis
de Bernières
********** The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields ********** The Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett ********** Larry's Party by Carol Shields ********** Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier ********** The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver ********** The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende ********** Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson ********** Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver **********
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Agent Garbo, by Stephan Talty ********** The Party is Over by Mike Lofgren ********** Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi, ********** In the Shadows of War by Thomas Childers ********** Havana Nocturne, by T.J. English William Morrow 2007 ********** Hedy's Folly by Richard Rhodes Doubleday 2011 ********** Citizens of London by Lynne Olson ********** And The Show Went On by Alan Riding ********** Christine, A search for Christine Granville by Madeleine Masson ********** Every Man in This Village is a Liar by Megan K. Stack ********** In The Garden of The Beasts by Erik Larson ********** Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand ********** And the Dead Shall Rise by Steve Oney ********** OPJB by Christopher Creighton ********** The Good Man of Nanking by John Rabe ********** The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang ********** The Last Campaign by Thurston Clarke ********** Mahler by Kurt Blaukopf & Herta Blaukopf ********** Persian Mirrors by Elaine Sciolino ********** The Dark Side by Jane Mayer ********** The Death of Dylan Thomas by Nashold M.D. & Tremlett ********** Churchill, Hitler & the Unnecessary War by Patrick Buchanan ********** The Forger by Cioma Schönhaus ********** Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk ********** The Somme by Peter Hart ********** Clapton, The Autobiography by Eric Clapton ********** Legacy Of Ashes by Tim Weiner ********** Troublesome Young Men by Lynne Olson ********** Too Close to the Sun by Sara Wheeler ********** Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury ********** A Soldier's Story by General Omar N. Bradley ********** The GOD Delusion by Richard Dawkins ********** Murder in Amsterdam by Ian Buruma ********** Fiasco by Thomas E. Ricks ********** Dowding & The Headquarters Fighter Command by Peter Flint ********** Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick ********** Ten Years at The Court of St. James by Baron von Eckardstein ********** Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond ********** John Adams by David McCullough ********** Postwar, a History of Europe since 1945 by Tony Judt ********** Shostakovich and Stalin by Solomon Volkov ********** The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr ********** The City Of Falling Angels by John Berendt ********** Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis ********** The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman ********** His Excellency, George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis ********** The United States of Europe by T.R. Reid ********** The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell ********** The Battle of Alamein by John Bierman and Colin Smith ********** Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour by Joseph Persico ********** News Of a Kidnapping by Gabriel García Màrquez ********** The Battle Of Hurtgen Forest by Charles Whiting ********* A Man Called Intrepid by William Stevenson ********* The Bushes, by Peter & Rochelle Schweizer ********** Plan Of Attack by Bob Woodward ********** Bush's Brain by James Moore & Wayne Slater ********** American Dynasty by Kevin Phillips ********** Churchill, A Biography by Roy Jenkins ********* Franklin and Winston by Jon Meacham ********** Flyboys by James Bradley ********** Masterminds of Terror by Yosri Fouda and Nick Fielding ********** War Talk by Arundhati Roy ********** The Skeptic, A Life of H. L. Mencken by Terry Teachout ********** The First World War by John Keegan ********* Some Desperate Glory by Edwin Campion Vaughn ********** Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara ********* The Conquerors by Michael Beschloss ********** Longitudes and Attitudes by Thomas L. Friedman ********* The Englishman's Daughter by Ben MacIntyre ********** Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee ********** Jack, Straight from the Gut by Jack Welch ********** In Afghanistan by Jere Van Dyk ********** The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes ********** Dutch by Edmund Morris ********** Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom ********** Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil by John Berendt ********** The Rise Of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris ********** Band Of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose ********** The Killer Angels
by
Michael Shaara
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