Daily Archive: July 12, 2004

Utopia

Just started this little book so I am not really sure where its taking me.  This version has a lot of preample putting the book in its historical context and talks a lot about the approach taken to the translation, and compares this approach with other translations, ie its a...

Coastliners

Not Joannes best book in my view, but a good read none the less.  being a Coastliner myself though I think it appealed to me more than most other reviewers.  Like many of Joannes books I tend to feel they are a bit too short given the number of interesting...

Blackberry Wine

A really good novel, probably my favourite of all Joannes books.  The only things I disliked about it was the insistence on sticking with the “clever idea” she has at the start of the book of describing things from the perspective of one of the ‘special’ bottles of wine.  Whilst it seems clever at...