A personal review of books, the only link between them is that there is NO LINK!
by Muriel Spark ISBN: 978-0-241-95677-9 First published 1961 128 pages Cover design: Sarah Watts 4/5 Stars A wonderful book with a wonderful comedic creation of Miss Jean Brodie. Together with her 'girls', Monica Douglas, Rose Stanley, Eunice Gardiner, Sandy Stranger, Jenny Gray and Mary Macgregor, Miss Brodie teaches them about art, love, history, the classics… Continue reading The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
A Graphic Guide by J.P.McEvoy and Oscar Zarate ISBN: 978-184046850-2 First published 1996 173 pages Cover design: Edward Bettison 4/5 Stars For 25 years at the beginning of the 20th century, a most remarkable set of scientists developed what would become known as Quantum Theory. Einstein, Pauli, Dirac, Schrödinger, Planck, Born, Curie, Bohr, De Broglie,… Continue reading Introducing Quantum Theory
An Inspector Maigret novel by Georges Simenon ISBN: 978-0-241-24016-8 First published 1950 180 pages Cover design: Alceu Chiesorin Nunes Cover photo: Harry Gruyaert / Magnum Photos Translated by Howard Curtis 3/5 Stars A wonderfully easy read by Georges Simenon. Georges was born in Belgium in 1903 and died in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1989. Maigret is… Continue reading Madam Maigret’s Friend
Politics and Influence in Organisations by Jeffrey Pfeffer ISBN: 0-87584-440-5 First published 1992 345 pages Cover design: Not credited 4/5 Stars How to be successful in organisations? Jeffrey Pfeffer shows us how politics and influence are vital in achieving our goals within organisations. He considers the building of coalitions towards action, and that action can… Continue reading Managing with Power
by Tove Jansson (translation by Elizabeth Portch) ISBN: 978-0-14-030286-8 First published 1946 158 pages Illustrations: Tove Jansson 5/5 Stars Moomintroll, Snufkin, Sniff and the Muskrat head off to the Observatory to find when the giant comet in the sky will land on Moomin Valley. Love and friendship abound in this wonderful children's book. On the… Continue reading Comet in Moominland
A Memoir by Anh Do ISBN: 978-1-74237-238-9 First published 2010 232 pages Cover design: Phil Campbell 4/5 Stars A warm and insightful autobiography by Anh Doh. Throughout the whole book Anh's exuberance wins out. Whether it is recounting his violent father, or his impoverished upbringing, or his encounters (few and far between) with racists and… Continue reading The HAPPIEST Refugee
Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by Patrick Leigh Fermor ISBN: 978-0-7195-6691-2 First published 1958 310 pages Cover design: John Craxton 4/5 Stars Ostensibly a travelogue of the Mani peninsula at the tip of the Southern Peloponnese, it is actually a homage to the lost age of Byzantium, and all Greek culture through the ages. Patrick… Continue reading MANI
by Neal Stephenson ISBN: 978-0-241-95318-1 First published 1992 440 pages Cover design: David Wilson 6/5 Stars A great start to the Eclectic Book Review site. 6 stars out of 5. Neal Stephenson creates a lifelike world after the demise of the USA and the resultant rise of the 'Burbs and other enclaves (The MAFIA, Greater… Continue reading Snow Crash
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