Willa Cather transports the reader into the savage and unforgiving Southwest terrain, enlightening our senses, enabling us to see the brown and desolate landscape in our minds eye. At times while reading Death Comes for the Archbishop, I felt like I was gazing at a painting. A must read for a person who seeks a glimpse of the stark Southwest, and a well written book.
From one of the most highly acclaimed novelists of the twentieth century—"a truly remarkable book" (The New York Times),an epic—almost mythic—story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.
In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows—gently, all the while contending with an unforgiving landscape,…
The first time I read Mary Shelly's Frankenstein was decades ago, and when I finished reading it, I felt like I'd just read one of the greatest loves stories ever told, and now after reading it a third time I feel exactly the same. Her heart felt writing of a misunderstood creature who is only seeking love and companionship, but is looked upon as a monster because of his physical appearance, shows us that no matter what era we live in, human nature does not change.
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'
'That rare story to pass from literature into myth' The New York Times
Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley on Lake Geneva. The story of Victor Frankenstein who, obsessed with creating life itself, plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, but whose botched creature sets out to destroy his maker, would become the world's most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity. Based on the third…
John Kennedy Toole's Confederacy of Dunces took me to a state of euphoria with his colorful and descriptive writing. His three -dimensional characters gave me a sense that I was living inside the book, I was a part of the story. The accent of the Louisiana dialect transcended me into a place of warmth and security. I look forward to reading this fantastic novel a second time. I'm sure there is a lot I missed!
'This is probably my favourite book of all time' Billy Connolly
A pithy, laugh-out-loud story following John Kennedy Toole's larger-than-life Ignatius J. Reilly, floundering his way through 1960s New Orleans, beautifully resigned with cover art by Gary Taxali _____________
'This city is famous for its gamblers, prostitutes, exhibitionists, anti-Christs, alcoholics, sodomites, drug addicts, fetishists, onanists, pornographers, frauds, jades, litterbugs, and lesbians . . . don't make the mistake of bothering me.'
Ignatius J. Reilly: fat, flatulent, eloquent and almost unemployable. By the standards of ordinary folk he is pretty much…
Mary Maurice's novel Candy Jane Cane and the Apple Jacks Killer is a fast paced, can't put it down, sitting on the edge of your seat soft/murder/mystery. Returning to her hometown of Mongoose Falls, Minnesota, Candy Jane Cane is thrown once again into the diabolical mind of the towns second serial killer in fifteen years. Faced with reoccurring scenario's Cane discovers the true identity of her nemesis. If you like action and adventure this is a read for you!
