Thursday, April 22, 2010
Book Review: When the Sax Man Plays: Part 1 - Making It by Yvonne Marrs
When the Sax Man Plays, by Yvonne Marrs, is a story about a young music tutor, Jason Bottelli, who finds himself obliged to put together a band in order to compete in a talent contest. A group of very unlikely characters put themselves forward as candidates and as the band is assembled they surprise themselves to find out that they can perform surprisingly well together.
The strength of this book is its readability, written in a flowing style with always enough hinting as to what is to come ensuring that the reader quickly progresses through the book. There are episodic levels of suspense associated with the band going through the rounds which leads to a constant temptation to take a quick peek at the last page to see what will happen to the group.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Books to be Reviewed: The Seven Gifts That Came To Earth by John Mellor
Thanks to John Mellor for sending me a copy of his book, The Seven Gifts That Came To Earth, for reviewing. This is a story of a boy, charged by an Angel, to deliver seven gifts to earth, but first he must discover what they are.
"Seven precious gifts are bestowed on the Earth but not revealed. A young boy is charged with finding them."
"The singer emerged and his music raged across the land, a wild, swirling cloud of chords, laying waste like locusts to all that was soulless before it."
"I come not to bring peace, he said."
A review will soon follow here, until then readers can order a copy on John's website; The Seven Gifts.
"Seven precious gifts are bestowed on the Earth but not revealed. A young boy is charged with finding them."
"The singer emerged and his music raged across the land, a wild, swirling cloud of chords, laying waste like locusts to all that was soulless before it."
"I come not to bring peace, he said."
A review will soon follow here, until then readers can order a copy on John's website; The Seven Gifts.
Book Review: The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer
The premise of the story is intriguing and the early chapters draw the reader into a fascinating, but sordid history of the Hitler family with a literary, but readable style which, together with the innate fascination of the subject, turn this into something of a page-turner in its early stages. However, at some hard-to-pinpoint stage the tale seems to lose its way, as if the author lost his train of thought, and it becomes a very different sort of book indeed, becoming more mysterious and allegorical but losing something of its readability for that; in fact it becomes less enjoyable.
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