By far the worst book I have ever read. I don't like to start a book and not finish it, so I forced myself to read page after page, all the while telling myself 'It will be worth it in the end!' Well- it wasn't, the end was the worst part. So to anyone else who is part way through this book and d...
A dark and disturbing thriller told through the online blog of Blue eyed boy who loves nothing more than to spin depraved tales to his followers of murder. Through his restricted web journal we are given an insight into the dysfunctional family he was raised and the abnormal relationship he now...
Firstly this was a great read, the kind of book you can't wait to get back to. I'm a Joanne Harris fan & can live with the unreality inherent in her use of magic in several books.This one uses a condition, synaesthesia as a backdrop but the premise is stretched a bit too far & some other aspects ...
Nowhere near as good as Gentlemen and Players. WOW! Great thriller, but certainly not what I expected from the author of the "Chocolat" trilogy.
Yet another one of Joanne Harris' books I found and loved.If you pick up this book and are expecting Marvel, don't. Much of mythology has its roots in oral tradition, meaning stories passed on over the years naturally evolve and are told in different ways. Marvel took what they wanted and ran wit...
I like this modern version of the Lokabrenna, which works as a prequel to Remarks, though some details are different. The contemporary phrases that crop up annoyed me vaguely to the and I didn't see their point. They didn't endear the characters to me, if that was the idea. Loki is as entertainin...
This is the first book from this author that I've read. I really enjoyed most of the stories - they were warm, emotional and somehow real ot me. Joanne Harris manages to combine the real and the fantastic element all at once. I felt her characters. It's not easy to build good personnage in short ...
I read this book as part of the "Food Glorious Food" January challenge. It also fulfilled one of my personal goals for 2012 to read books that have been sitting on my shelf.Normally I don't love books that have strained/negative relationships between mothers and daughters but even though that te...
Литературный обзор романа Джоанн Хэррис "Джентльмены и игроки": (пер. с англ. Старостиной Т.) Врачи часто оперируют понятием «не навредить». Многие писатели подспудно хотят «не наследить». Не в истории литературы, а так, чтобы читатели, среди которых обязательно найдутся прототипы тех или иных ге...
I read Harris' Five Quarters of the Orange & Blackberry Wine back to back, so I shalll review them together. They are very similar, actually; a little too much. Both feature lead female protagonists that have strong, proud, independent, walled-away personalities, unwilling to accept, let alone as...
Lo ammetto, comprare questo libro maliziosamente intitolato 'Chocolat' è stato più un peccato di gola, che un vero e proprio slancio letterario. Non sono quindi rimasta sorpresa - semmai inondata dall'acquolina - quando, sfogliando le pagine ed inghiottendo le righe di Joanne Harris ho sentito so...
Opinião do blogue Chaise Longue: http://girlinchaiselongue.blogspot.pt...Que Joanne Harris é uma das autoras mais conhecidas e amadas e a criadora de Chocolate toda a gente sabe, o que muitos não sabem é que numa festa conheceu Ewan McGregor e o confundiu com um ex-aluno, que quando jantou com Ra...
Who says you can't go home again? For the narrator of Joanne Harris's charming new novel, "Coastliners," you can't do anything else. Even when you're not wanted.Home for Madeleine is a tiny island off the coast of France called Devin, "the single place for which there can be no substitute." Her m...
Ατμοσφαιρικό, έξυπνο, πρωτότυπο, ανατρεπτικό, άντε και λίγο αστυνομικό. Η Τζόαν Χάρις έχει ξεφύγει αρκετά από τον "μύθο" της σειράς βιβλίων με τη μάγισσα Βιάν Ροσέ (Καυτή σοκολάτα, Γόβες και γλυκές αμαρτίες, Γεύση από ροδάκινο) κι έχει προχωρήσει σε νέα, πρωτότυπα μονοπάτια. Ίως κουράσει στην αρχ...
-- Originally reviewed at Here There Be Books. --I've gotten more and more fond of books with Norse mythology in them, probably because I took a really good medieval history class last semester that covered quite a bit of Viking history, which naturally made me more interested in everything to do...
This is the by far the best collection of short stories I've ever read. Who knew that the author of "Chocolat" could write such memorable and darkly haunting stories? She describes short stories to be something that "can startle, ignite, illuminate. It is often troubling, often frightening or s...
The wind has always dictated Vianne Rocher's every move, buffeting her from the French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes to the crowded streets of Paris. Cloaked in a new identity, that of widow Yanne Charbonneau, she opens a chocolaterie on a small Montmartre street, determined to still the wind...
Leon would never see me as I saw him, or feel anything for me but kindly contempt. And yet I was happy, in my way, with the crumbs of his affection; a slap on the arm, a grin, a few words—You’re all right, Pinchbeck—were enough to lift me, sometimes for hours. I was not Francesca; but soon, I kne...
My head spun as his cold eyes held me, appraisingly. Then I recognized my paranoia for what it was and slipped into my artless role. There. I was committed. I had declared war against the light. ‘Inspector Turner!’ I said. ‘Do forgive me; I really wasn’t expecting you. For a moment I even found m...
This was partly because of Rosette, who, having helped make the truffles, wanted to help deliver them, leading the way in her red rubber boots, splashing in every puddle and singing at the top of her voice – ‘Bam bam BAM, bam badda-BAM!’ – while Anouk stayed indoors with Alyssa and I tried to mar...
Call me a villain if you like, but I made her happy, which was more than your preaching ever did. She was lonelier than anyone I have ever known, trapped in her ivory tower with her cold prince and her servants and everything her heart desired except love. I was what she needed—and however much y...
Two officers, both men, both with the look of officials with an unpleasant task to perform.‘Roy Straitley?’‘Mea culpa,’ I said.Perhaps not the happiest choice of words. But I had been expecting them. I was Nutter’s form-master. And it had been a couple of days now since the boy’s disappearance. T...