Category: Books

The other week I noticed that Palm had updated their eBook software with eReader, their new improved version. The way they make you set it up is that you get the full “Pro” version for 15 days before it defaults to the normal version. And you also get to look at some ebooks for that…

Not too long ago I finally got around to reading The Seville Communion, and I must admit that it made me want to read more of Arturo Perez-Reverte’s work. The Flanders Panel is set in current day Madrid with our protagonist Julia, an art restorer, working on a painting that depicts a chess game from…

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Book 5 in the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series is more of the same really. There’s not a great deal of “detection” going on here – a lady who’s trying to choose between four suitors. And we only meet two of them! Then there’s a sponsored parachute jump, and maybe a wedding. Nothing much ever…

A bit late to the party with this one. The flyleaf of this books says it was written in 1991, so that’s a short while ago. And I’m someone who reads pretty much everything Coupland writes. But somehow his debut novel had passed me by. Of course I’ve owned a copy of it for quite…

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