Archives for Short Book Review (SBR)
Short Book Review: A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
SBR: We are talking about the first three novels of the Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin. My fantasy…
Short Book Review: I Let You Go by Claire Mackintosh
SBR: I Let You Go is a fairly well-received crime-suspense novel, which didn't work for me. The suspense was maintained…
Short Book Review: The Princes by Manohar Malgonkar
SBR: The Princes is a charming, well-written book that doesn't pretend to make a grand statement. It is narrated in the…
Short Book Review: The Prisoners by Jorasandho
SBR: The Prisoners is a Bengali book, translated into many languages. I read it in English. It is a collection of…
Short Book Review: First They Killed my Father by Loung Ung
SBR: First They Killed my Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers was another one of our Cambodia-trip picks. The description…
Short Book Review: Orlando by Virginia Woolf
SBR: Q: Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf? A: Me! Holy cow! Orlando is supposed to be the most accessible…
Short Book Review: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
SBR: I wanted to read a nice love story and since modern romance novels don't seem to work for me, I…
Short Book Review: Watching Cambodia: Ten Paths to Enter the Cambodian Tangle by Serge Thion
SBR: This book was picked up, not surprisingly, during our trip to Cambodia last year and I read it soon…
Short Book Review: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
SBR: The English Patient is another one of those award-winning books that didn't work for me. The film of poetic,…
Short Book Review: The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
SBR: Man Booker Prize notwithstanding The Narrow Road to the Deep North is incredibly pointless in the first 200 pages. And…