Showing posts with label 1960s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1960s. Show all posts
Tuesday, 10 October 2023

CBR15 Book 55: "Lessons in Chemistry" by Bonnie Garmus

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Page count: 400 pages Rating: 5 stars #CBR15 Passport Challenge: Books recommended by friends Elizabeth Zott is a chemist struggling to be t...
Sunday, 25 October 2020

#CBR12 Book 75: "Star Dust" by Emma Barry and Genevieve Turner

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Page count: 313 pages Rating: 3 stars Official book description: Houston, 1962 Anne-Marie Smith wanted normal: a loving husband, two beautif...
Tuesday, 4 September 2018

#CBR10 Book 65: "All the Crooked Saints" by Maggie Stiefvater

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Page count: 320 pages Audio book length: 9 hrs 9 mins Rating: 4 stars #CBR10 Bingo: Birthday (Ms Stiefvater's birthday is November...
Sunday, 12 March 2017

#CBR9 Book 22: "The Turn: The Hollows Begins with Death" by Kim Harrison

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Page count: 448 pages Audio book length: 16 hrs 20 mins Rating: 4 stars Spoiler warning! I found it impossible to review this book wit...
Sunday, 15 November 2015

#CBR7 Book 115: "4:50 from Paddington" by Agatha Christie

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Page count: 351 pages Audio book length: 7 hrs 8 mins Rating: 2 stars On her way by train to visit her old friend Jane Marple for Chri...
Monday, 13 July 2015

#CBR7 Book 72: "Populærmusikk fra Vittula"(Popular Music from Vittula) by Mikael Niemi

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Page count: 224 pages Rating: 2 stars Matti grows up in a tiny town in the remote north of Sweden in the 1960s and 70s. The chapters in...
Saturday, 22 November 2014

#CBR6 Book 125: "The Outsiders" by Susan E. Hinton

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Page count: 190 pages Rating: 5 stars Ponyboy Curtis is an orphan. He lives with his two older brothers, Darry, who works construction ...
Sunday, 23 March 2014

#CBR6 Book 20: "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

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Page count: 375 pages Rating: 3.5 stars Lily Owens grows up isolated, neglected by her father and lonely on a peach farm in Georgia in ...
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Sunday, 5 May 2013

#CBR5 Book 45. "Maskeblomstfamilien" (The Figwort Family) by Lars Saabye Christensen

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Page count: 285 pages Rating: 1.5 star " I had a good childhood. My father died when I was twelve. My mother went to bed early. I ...