A cult figure. A "genuine anti-hero; an impossible character yet impossible not to like". Random House Canada, 2012Trans. Don Bartlett That's how the author's site describes Harry Hole, who is at the heart of Jo Nesbø's popular series. 'Hole' is pronounced Hoo-leh, by the way, although the Australians in
"She's a beauty all right," said Tom, taking in the giant lens, far taller than himself, atop the rotating pedestal: a palace of prisms like a beehive made from glass. It was the very heart of Janus, all light and clarity and silence." Janus is a small isolated island off
That's what the LA Times calls The Newspaper of Claremont Street: "Every word of this spare little novel is right." (You could say the same of Miss Peabody's Inheritance, which I read earlier this year; this is the only other of her novels on my shelf, so I'm not sure
B.I.P.'s Snips are short-hand responses to works; I usually opt for this format when I've read the book without taking many (or any) notes. Kate Wilhelm’s Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (1976) Read: Mostly over breakfast, home-baked muffins or bakery-bought rugelach with coffee, perched on a stool in the kitchen, mostly
Peter Temple's The Broken Shore (2005) Random House, 2008 Sometime in early May I picked up a copy of Peter Temple's Truth at the library; it was on my hold shelf with a few other books. <cough> (It doesn't really matter for the purposes of this story that you know
