Monthly Archives: January 2008

water sign — kieron connolly

5 stars

Paul has lost his Jenny, Mary lost her David. Two years along the road they both are strug­gling with their loss still. How to move on when you lost your soul­mate, your rea­son for liv­ing? What to do if you want to live in real­ity, but can’t see it, being stuck in the past, in dreams you don’t want to dream? You will breath in and out, but with­out the notion you’re doing so. You talk to your best friends, who hate to see you like that and are try­ing with all their might to make you under­stand you really have to start liv­ing again. But how? Paul and Mary have a mis­sion: they have to stop liv­ing in the past and take on the real­ity of the present. And they need each other to do that, some­how they know, they knew all along, but how to meet when you still have Jenny and David to deal with? What then?

the tournament — john clarke

4 stars

What will hap­pen if Hem­ing­way plays ten­nis against Hei­deg­ger, or T.S. Eliot against Marx? And what are their state­ments after­words? You will read it in this crazy (in the good sense of the word) book. A reporter gives all of us a cov­er­age of the biggest sports event of the decade. Each nation is field­ing their great­est names and each of those names wants to be the best. So make way for the great­est minds of the last cen­tury in the great­est bat­tle of all times.

the colour of magic — terry pratchett

3 stars

There is a flat world, sup­ported on a giant tur­tle and four big ele­phants. On this world, Dis­c­world, are liv­ing var­i­ous strange crea­tures; magi­cians, trolls, wiz­ards among many oth­ers. One of the wiz­ards is Rincewind and he has a mis­sion. He has to keep another wiz­ard, the tourist Twoflower, under con­trol in his quest to see every­thing there is on Dis­c­world. Eas­ier said than done Rincewind dicov­ers dur­ing their trip across all the strange cities, moun­tains and trees. To make things worse for Rincewind, Death has decided to make the wiz­ard his hobby. Will Rincewind sur­vive it all?

the secret life of bees — sue monk kidd

4 stars

Lily lives with T. Ray, her father. Her mother died when she was four years old. Despite Lily’s efforts towards T. Ray to get some love and atten­tion from him, all he gives in return is for her to work in the peach stall with­out books and her knees in grit on the ground when she does some­thing she shouldn’t. The sum­mer of 1964 is not any dif­fer­ent until there are some bees in Lily’s room. These bees, Lily thinks, are sent to her for a rea­son.
When Ros­aleen, the help T. Ray hired to mother Lily, is being arrested and thrown in jail for no more rea­son than the fact that Ros­aleen is black, Lily takes con­trol. She frees Ros­aleen and they run away towards a place Lily knows holds the secret to the life of her mother: Tiburon. In that town live three black eccen­tric sis­ters by whom Lily and Ros­aleen are taken in and learn what real free­dom is.