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Cowboy Day
Some of my first books I read as a teenager were Louis L’amour, Bill Reno, Zane Grey
… they influenced a lot of my teenage years.
So in honor of Cowboy Day, I’m dusting off my old Western Collection, and sitting down to a good old fashion Cowboy Story.
Book Review: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Deserves more than 5 stars!!!
Every now and then, you find a book that changes the way you think about certain elements of life, the world and everything.
This is one of those books, and it impacts the reader on THAT level.
Told from the point of view of Patroclus, lover of Achilles, this story retells the famous myths of the life and death of the greatest hero in Ancient Greece, making it accessible for a modern audience who might not be too inclined to read The Iliad etc..
The LGBT themes running through this aren’t too heavy or angsty either, and the author has woven them in such a way that they draw on the issues that are being faced today by the LGBT community and how the world views LGBT issues.
Brilliant, exciting, and a highly recommended reading.
I’m going to be enthusing about this book for a very long time!
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Emoji Day
While conducting researching for a book, writing said book, and then the dreaded editing of the book …
one goes through a variety of emotions.
There are times only a good set of emojis can translate what an author is feeling at any given time in the process.
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Book Review: Enter the Saint by Leslie Charteris
Enter the Saint by Leslie Charteris
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Who hasn’t heard of The Saint. You may have seen the TV Show with Roger Moore, or the film adaption with Val Kilmer (which we won’t talk about) … though you might not know exactly who The Saint was, you have had heard of him.
I picked this book up on my Kindle Unlimited, and was like okay lets go for it. I enjoyed these three smaller novellas thoroughly. I laughed, snorted, rolled my eyes, and had a great time while reading them. If you’re expecting more, you won’t get it with the Saint.
I wouldn’t recommend the whole series as over time there were many author’s writing The Saint, but I would recommend picking up one or two from the earlier years. You’ll fall in love with Simon Templar instantly, and his crew of Saints.
Book Review: The Fencing Master by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
The Fencing Master by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is a truly remarkable book that hooked me from the first paragraph (which so rarely happens that I actually bought it without a second thought!).
Highly recommended!
Slow burning, brilliantly executed, stunningly graphic and beautiful, emotive and powerful.
I seriously want to hug the Fencing Master himself right now…
*sigh*
This piece caught me most of all, because YES!:
“We find ourselves in the last of the three generations history chooses to repeat every now and then. The first generation needs a god, and so they invent one. The second erects temples to that god and tries to imitate him. And the third uses the marble from those temples to build brothels in which to worship their own greed, lust, and dishonesty. And that is why gods and heroes are always, inevitably, succeeded by mediocrities, cowards, and imbeciles.”
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Book Review: Go by Kazuki Kaneshiro, Takami Nieda (Translator)
This is one of the books from Amazon’s World Book Day.
Go by Kazuki Kaneshiro
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I randomly stumbled onto this book through Amazon Crossing, and wasn’t at all sure about it, as ‘coming of age’ stories really don’t attract me at all, but being curious I gave it a try and I was drawn into the cultural relevance of this story from the start.
It’s a very easy read and not particularly long, but I feel as though I have been quite dramatically educated on Japanese culture and Japanese society.
Excellent translation! Highly recommended reading!