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Tuesday, 18 February 2014

M. G. Scarsbrook, Dream of the Dead

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In the Bookworm's Universe, reading crime novels is an exception rather than a rule.  Deep down I feel that if you've read one w...
Tuesday, 19 November 2013

Michael Kelly, Tales From The Home Farm

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Usually I stick religiously to the reading order of my books.  First acquired, first digested, no argument please.  This is probably the...
Tuesday, 5 November 2013

Danny Seraphine and Adam Mitchell, Street Player

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Despite my recent promises of improvement, Bookworm's Cave is still terribly quiet these days.  There are many causes, some of whi...
Tuesday, 29 October 2013

Bruce Jay Friedman, Even The Rhinos Were Nymphos

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Even The Rhinos Were Nymphos - ain't that a magnificent title? As it often happens with me, I picked the book for the title alone.  ...
Tuesday, 8 October 2013

Susan Sontag, Where The Stress Falls

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I've read so many great things about Susan Sontag that I was almost salivating when I finally got hold of a book of her essays.  The...
Friday, 20 September 2013

Janine Di Giovanni, The Quick and the Dead

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I do like Janine Di Giovanni's reporting style.  She's compassionate without being sentimental, her images vivid but not overly ...
Wednesday, 18 September 2013

Charles Panati, Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things

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Things are happening slowly in the Bookworm's Cave these days, for which I apologise.  Life has been hectic recently:  new jobs for ...