Four more to add to my challenge

The Return of the Dancing Master is another crime fiction – I just can’t keep away from crime fiction. “When retired policeman Herbert Molin is found brutally slaughtered on his remote farm in the northern forests of Sweden, police find strange tracks in the snow — as if someone had been practicing the tango. Stefan…

Such an unusual book

“Heather Rose’s novel, “The Museum of Modern Love,” is a part-fact, part-fiction tale of art, love, grief and convergence.” (Joe Wigdahl for The New York Times). I had not heard of Marina Abramovic before reading this book and I had to check her out on the internet to discover who she was.  The book revolves…

Well that has changed my previous perceptions.

Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe has certainly changed my view of the history of Australian Aboriginal people. This book ought to be made compulsory reading for every Australian. There is a Ted talk by Bruce Pascoe that covers some of the ground covered in the book (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqgrS…) but the book goes into much more detail….

Couldn’t stop with this one.

I started this book and literally could not put it down.  It started off with what I would call a rather scary element but I was drawn in.  It is a book that has you puzzled throughout and you are even left with questions at the end.  It is the story of an outsider.  A…

Three that have a link

I have had a sudden burst of reading and these are three of the books I have read. This one certainly provided a bit of humour to the complexities of growing old. It was a light read and thoroughly enjoyable. The second book was also linked to old age but with the added twist of…

The last of my March books

These are the remaining few books I finished in March. This was a non-fiction book, my first non-fiction for a while.  I found it extremely interesting and the blurb from the book gives you a good idea of why I found it so interesting. “I was born into a world that expected very little of…