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Book Review : O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Willa Cather knew the frontier life as a young girl and she used this experience to write this book, the first of the Great Plains trilogy. Alexandra Bergson comes over the ocean from Sweden as a young girl with her parents to live on the Nebraska frontier. When her parents pass away, Alexandra becomes a surrogate parent to her three brothers Lou, Oscar, and Emil. Alexandra is well-organised and…
Vancouver : Time Out Market
The Time Out Market has opened at the Oakridge Centre in Vancouver. This shopping centre is at Cambie and West 41st Avenue. Cambie Street heads from Marine Drive Skytrain station to the city centre. The Canada Line metro line follows Cambie from Marine Drive to Olympic Village and there’s a metro station at the Oakridge Centre. 41st Avenue is a major East-West road starting from Victoria Drive…
Book Review : Brat Farrar
This is another excellent mystery by Josephine Tey because the fact that Brat Farrar isn’t who he claims to be is revealed early in the book to the reader, it’s how the revelation comes about for the characters in the novel that is rather clever. The book doesn’t receive five stars for two reasons. The first is that most of the main characters in the book like horses and a lot of the background…
Book Review: The Most Dangerous Game by Gavin Lyall
According to the book, the Most Dangerous Game of all is another man with a gun… This story is set in northern Finland in the area from Rovaniemi to Ivalo with the denouement on the Russian side of the Finnish border where the strands of the story are tied together. Bill Cary is a float-plane pilot in northern Finland who smokes a lot, drinks a lot, and gets into many scrapes. He flies…
Book Review : A Clergyman's Daughter
A Clergyman’s Daughter is the second novel and third book by George Orwell. Dorothy Hare is the Clergyman’s Daughter of the title. She lives in rural Suffolk, looks after her father, and gets involved in parish matters. One day she is pounced upon by a character called Mr Warburton near the church. He tries to kiss her but she rejects his advances. They may have been seen by the village…
Book Review : Erebus - The Story of a Ship
This is a brilliant book about a small ship that along with her sister ship, Terror, survived the Antarctic only to sink in the Arctic on an expedition to find the North-West Passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific. The book is incredibly well researched and engagingly written and is a maritime mystery that will almost certainly never be solved. For anyone interested in exploration and…
Book Review : The Purple Plain
The book is set in the Burma of 1945, the Japanese are meant to be in retreat, but they’re still firmly in the minds of the local population who are worried their enemy will return. Squadron Leader Forrester is the commander at an air station on the “purple plain” of Burma, but gradually loses the will to live once he hears his young wife has been killed in the London Blitz. However, he meets a…
Book Review : The Window at the White Cat
This was a 2.5 stars rounded up to three stars as there isn’t a wholesale massacre of characters in the story. The White Cat Club of the title is a members club integral to the politics and poker-playing of the town / city of Plattsburg. The narrator is a lawyer called Jack Knox who lives with his married brother, Fred, Fred’s wife and their two boys in a nearby city called Manchester (USA not…
Book Review : Inspector French and the Loss of the ‘Jane Vosper’
Freeman Wills Crofts worked as a railway engineer and trained as a civil engineer. He makes good use of this precision both in his description of what the criminals did to achieve their aims and in the rigorous investigation of Chief Detective Inspector French. The Jane Vosper is carrying five cargoes in its holds from London to various ports in South America ranging from Pernambuco to Buenos…
Book Review : The Prisoner of Zenda
The Prisoner of Zenda is a swashbuckling story set in the mythical area of central Europe known as Ruritania. Rudolf Rassendyll has a private income and a lust for travel. He has the Elphberg red hair and large nose, courtesy of an affair between a young English girl and a previous king of Ruritania centuries before. When he goes to Ruritania for a quiet holiday, the attendants of the king,…
Book Review : Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
The first outing for The Continental Op sees him visit the corrupt mining town of Personville. He arranges to meet a man called Don Willsson who will tell The Continental Op what is required of him in Personville. The Continental Op arrives at Willsson’s house but he’s out according to Willsson’s wife. She then goes out and comes back with blood on her shoe. It transpires Willsson has been…
Book Review : The Grapes of Wrath
This story is quite possibly the ultimate road trip in a novel as well as being a commentary on the social and economic history of the period. The Joads have to leave The Dust Bowl in Oklahoma of the early 1930s where big business is demolishing their shacks and find a better life in California. The whole family are piled into their truck, some of them riding on their belongings on top. Not all…
Book Review : Inspector Imanishi Investigates
This book about the investigations of Inspector Imanishi takes place in Japan in the year 1960, so is not only a murder / mystery story but also provides an insight into Japanese culture just 15 years after the end of World War II. More than most murder / mystery stories Inspector Imanishi eats a lot of varieties of food in many types of restaurant. His investigations cover most of Honshu island…
Book Review : The Long Journey Home by Michael Gilbert
Once again, browsing in a second-hand bookshop produces an absolute belter of a book. I’d never read a book by Michael Gilbert before, but there it was on the shelf. I have an affliction where I can’t visit a bookshop and NOT buy a book, so I bought The Long Journey Home. Admittedly, the protagonist of the book, John Benedict, is a self-made millionnaire who is absurdly fit, but even so the…
Book Review: Chain of Darkness by Kenneth Cook
This book is an interesting idea. There are two strands to the story. The first strand is about the murderer and his attempts to evade the police, the second strand is about a reporter for a TV broadcaster covering the police hunt for the murderer. The book was first published in 1962 and is set in Australia. The murderer is a brutal character and kills people with something approaching…
Solo Travel : Milan railways
Milan was the starting point for my train travel in Northern Italy. The central station was completed in 1931 and has a mix of Art Deco, Art Nouveau, and Modernist styles. There’s an underground station here that can connect the traveller with most of the sights. The Milan underground comprises five lines: M1 (red line), M2 (green line), M3 (yellow line), M4(blue line) and M5 (lilac line).…
Book Review: Monsignor Quixote by Graham Quixote
Father Quixote is a catholic priest in the small town of El Toboso. He is kind to the visiting Bishop of Motopo, plying him with many drinks to ensure the bishop’s brief soujourn in the area is a happy one. Father Quixote is surprised to receive a letter through the post a few weeks later indicating he’s been promoted to the level of a Monsignor as recommended by the Bishop of Motopo. Recently,…