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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:
American Creation by Joseph Ellis
For Love & Money by Jonathan Raban
Alice by Stacy Cordery
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 Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst HHHHHHHHII The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid HHHHHHHIII A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini HHHHHHHHHH Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky HHHHHHHHHI Arthur & George by Julian Barnes HHHHHHHHHH The Lincoln lawyer by Michael Connelly HHHHHHHHII One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez HHHHHHHHHH War Trash by Ha Jin HHHHHHHHII The Reader by Bernhard Schlink HHHHHHHHHI The News From Paraguay by Lily Tuck HHHHHHHHHI Angels & Demons by Dan Brown HHHHHHHHII Bel Canto by Ann Patchett HHHHHHHHHH The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency byAlexander McCall Smith HHHHHHHIII The Birth Of Venus by Sarah Dunant HHHHHHHHHI Paranoia by Joseph Finder HHHHHIIIII The da Vinci Code by Dan Brown HHHHHHHHHH Our Lady Of The Forest by David Guterson HHHHHHHIII The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini HHHHHHHHHH Atonement by Ian McEwan HHHHHHHHHI The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen HHHHHHHHII The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd HHHHHHHHII Red Rabbit by Tom Clancy HHHHHIIIII The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold HHHHHHHHII A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley HHHHHHIIII Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier HHHHHHHHHI A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole HHHHHHHHHI The Testament by John Grisham HHHHHIIIII The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood HHHHHHHHII The Human Stain by Philip Roth HHHHHHHHHI Close Range by Annie Proulx HHHHHHHHII In The Fall by Jeffrey Lent HHHHHHHIII The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx HHHHHHHHHI Corelli's Mandolin by Louis
de Bernières
HHHHHHHHHH The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields HHHHHHHHHI The Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett HHHHHHIIII Larry's Party by Carol Shields HHHHHIIIII Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier HHHHHHHHHH The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver HHHHHHHHHI The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende HHHHHHHIII Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson HHHIIIIIII Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver HHHHHHHIII
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The Death of Dylan Thomas
by Nashold M.D. & Tremlett
HHHHHHHHII Churchill, Hitler & the Unnecessary War by Patrick Buchanan HHHHHHHHHH The Forger by Cioma Schönhaus HHHHHHHHHI Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk HHHHHHIIII The Somme by Peter Hart HHHHHHHHHI Clapton, The Autobiography by Eric Clapton HHHHHHHHII Legacy Of Ashes by Tim Weiner HHHHHHHHHI Troublesome Young Men by Lynne Olson HHHHHHHHHH Too Close to the Sun by Sara Wheeler HHHHHHHHHI Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury HHHHHHHIII A Soldier's Story by General Omar N. Bradley HHHHHHHHHI The GOD Delusion by Richard Dawkins HHHHHHHIII Murder in Amsterdam by Ian Buruma HHHHHHHHHH Fiasco by Thomas E. Ricks HHHHHHHHII Dowding & The Headquarters Fighter Command by Peter Flint HHHHHHHHII Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick HHHHHHHIII Ten Years at The Court of St. James by Baron von Eckardstein HHHHHHHHHH Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond HHHHHHIIII John Adams by David McCullough HHHHHHHHHH Postwar, a History of Europe since 1945 by Tony Judt HHHHHHHHHH Shostakovich and Stalin by Solomon Volkov HHHHHHHHHH The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr HHHHHHHIII The City Of Falling Angels by John Berendt HHHHHHHHII Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis HHHHHHHHII The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman HHHHHHHIII His Excellency, George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis HHHHHHHHHI The United States of Europe by T.R. Reid HHHHHHHHII The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell HHHHHHHIII The Battle of Alamein by John Bierman and Colin Smith HHHHHHHHII Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour by Joseph Persico HHHHHHHIII News Of a Kidnapping by Gabriel García Màrquez HHHHHHHIII The Battle Of Hurtgen Forest by Charles Whiting HHHHHHHHHI A Man Called Intrepid by William Stevenson HHHHHHHHHI The Bushes, by Peter & Rochelle Schweizer HHHHHHHHII Plan Of Attack by Bob Woodward HHHHHHIIII Bush's Brain by James Moore & Wayne Slater HHHHHHHIII American Dynasty by Kevin Phillips HHHHHHHIII Churchill, A Biography by Roy Jenkins HHHHHHHHHI Franklin and Winston by Jon Meacham HHHHHHHIII Flyboys by James Bradley HHHHHHHHII Masterminds of Terror by Yosri Fouda and Nick Fielding HHHHHHHIII War Talk by Arundhati Roy HHHHHHHHHH The Skeptic, A Life of H. L. Mencken by Terry Teachout HHHHHIIIII The First World War by John Keegan HHHHHHHHHI Some Desperate Glory by Edwin Campion Vaughn HHHHHHHHII Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara HHHHHHHHHI The Conquerors by Michael Beschloss HHHHHHHHHH Longitudes and Attitudes HHHHHHHHHI by Thomas L. Friedman The Englishman's Daughter HHHHHHHIII by Ben MacIntyre Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee HHHHHHHHHH Jack, Straight from the Gut by Jack Welch HHHIIIIIII In Afghanistan by Jere Van Dyk HHHHHHHIII The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes HHHHHHIIIIII Dutch by Edmund Morris HHHHHHHIII Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom HHHHHHHHII Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil HHHHHHHHII by John Berendt The Rise Of Theodore Roosevelt HHHHHHHHII by Edmund Morris Band Of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose HHHHHHHIII The Killer Angels
by
Michael Shaara
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