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Book Review: Dandelion Wine
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury. My rating: 2 of 5 stars. Dandelion Wine is a collection of short stories set in the fictional Green Town, Illinois over the summer of 1928. The setting is said to based on Bradbury’s own childhood home of Waukegan, Illinois. I have a collection of short stories by Bradbury, and…
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Book Review: Generation X
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. Generation X is a novel set in the 1990s, and is a story centred around three friends, Andy Palmer, Dagmar (Dag) Bellinghausen and Claire Baxter. Three additional characters make an appearance as the story progresses, including Tobias, Elvissa, and…
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Book Review: James Herriot’s Yorkshire Stories
James Herriot’s Yorkshire Stories by James Herriot. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. I’m a big fan of the new All Creatures Great and Small series, and was pleased when I received this little collection of James Herriot’s short stories as a gift earlier this year. Herriot’s writing style is deceptively simple, and his love…
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Book Review: Where the Crawdads Sing
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Delia Owens is an inspiration to writers who have been putting down words for years without seeing them published. Although she was already a successful author of non-fiction books about her life as a wildlife scientist, Owens did not publish a novel…
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Book Review: About Writing: The Authorised Field Guide for Aspiring Authors
About Writing by Gareth L. Powell. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. In the late noughties, I used to converse on Twitter with a chap called Gareth L. Powell. We were both budding writers back in the day, and I can’t really remember how I met him, but we somehow lost touch during one of…
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Book Review: Written in The West
Written in the West Revisited by Wim Wenders. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. I’m one of those people who had never seen Paris, Texas until recently. I watched it a few weeks ago and was immediately blown away by the beautiful cinematography and use of colour throughout. When I learnt that the director, Wim…
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Book Review: Linda McCartney The Biography
Linda McCartney by Danny Fields. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. I’ve been an admirer of Linda McCartney’s photography for several years, and saw her retrospective at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum in Glasgow in 2019, before going on to complete a road trip to Campbeltown in Kintyre, near where many of her personal…
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Book Review: William Eggleston’s Guide
William Eggleston’s Guide by William Eggleston. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. I’ve been an admirer of William Eggleston’s colour photography for many years, and have a couple of his photobooks in my collection, including a book of his portraits. William Eggleston’s Guide is considered by some to be a seminal work in the development…
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