Haje’s Brain

iPhone 2.0 (that’s either the original or the 3G version) + BookShelf (£6.99 / $10) = a perfect eBook reader, which also has a built-in repository for public domain works, downloadable for free. Titles include Alice in Wonderland, Anna Karenina, Around the world in 80 days, A journey to the interior of the earth, A tale of two cities, A Christmas Carol… And that’s just the A’s! (more…)

The book is basically what it says on the cover: Ten-and-a-half short chapters, which together cover a lot of ground. It is not, as you may be led to believe, a book about history, however.

Rather, it is one of those books that somewhat reminds me of those Official Soundtrack albums they keep releasing: “Music composed for, and inspired by, X”. The stories are, in fact, all fiction. But rather than being history, they cleverly become part of history. Or they will do – for anyone who reads the book. It is also obviously inspired by history, in a way that no other book I have ever read is. (more…)

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold is a very strange, yet powerful book. It touches on subjects that many more established writers know to leave alone, but does so with an amount of grace and respect that makes it all worth while. (more…)

The books start off slowly, by painting a vivid portrait of Lyra, the books’ main character. Lyra is a 12 year-old girl with a heavy prophecy hanging over her. Early in the first novel, the reader learns that the existence of everything – in the widest possible sense of the word – depends on Lyra, and Lyra alone.
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Filth is about a less-than-charming Scottish Detective Sergeant, Bruce Robertson. He is an angry young man who is betting high on his upcoming promotion in the Edinburgh police force, and is willing to do whatever it takes to reach that goal..
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The plot is quite simple; We follow Kenneth (Or Ken Nott) a radio DJ on a moderately popular radio station in the time right after September 11. 2001. Surprisingly – or perhaps not, I am not quite sure yet – Ken is quite unaffected by the whole terrorist attack.
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The Crow Road is a novel written by Iain Banks in 1992, first published in 1993. It was later made into a television series.
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Poe describes his older poems as “crude compositions of my earliest boyhood” (Poe 1845, page 55), and apologises � in tradition with other works of gothic fiction � for his own works by saying that The Raven and Other Poems is hardly worth reading: “I think nothing in this volume of much value to the public, or very creditable to myself.” (Poe 1845, preface). A literary review / criticism of A Dream
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When I first was introduced to Iain Banks, I was amazed by his sheer storytelling power. Since, I have started reading a Banks book as every second book I’ve read. When I discovered that my local supermarket had a deal on hardbacks, and especially when I found banks’ book, I was hooked.
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