Sunday, February 15, 2009

My Friend the Enemy

by Paul Briscoe. Autobiographical. Insights into Nazi Germany, and how easy it was to be caught up in the general approval of Hitler and the anti-semitism.

Paul's mother was involved in


Saturday, February 14, 2009

Catch up again

I'm recovering from 'orrible shingles and have been reading and re-reading stuff.
List incomplete at the moment. The comments may result from a slightly warped view on life, and poor concentration. ;-)

How the Dead Live - by Will Self - inventive and funny, but I lost interest about half way through.

Kate Atkinson - Case Histories and One Good Turn - very complex crime stories with loads of overlapping characters and stories.

Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake in a genetically engineered future, where Snowman is the only surviving human with all the failings of the race - until the very end. I found it absorbing, but ultimately uninvolving. And I love Atwood's work.

Monday, February 9, 2009

Oryx and Crake - Atwood

I have just read this for the second time.