Category Archives: Books

After lugging around Shantaram last holidays, I was looking for a slimmer read for my time spent in airports and during flights, and after reading that Creepers had Urban Exploration as a theme, I just couldn’t resist. Continue reading →

After a recommendation I grabbed a copy of this, figuring it might be somewhere between an Eddie Bunker and Andy Dufresne kinda thing. Instead, we’re met with an even more fish-out-of-water 47 year old Jewish father of two sharing a cell with a neo-nazi hulk called Kansas. Continue reading →

After reading the fairly heavy Diary I thought it would be a good time to check out Charlie. And after all, it’s been a while since I’ve read a book with illustrations. Continue reading →

It’s not often that I can read a book in a few days, but the quite short Diary shows that sometimes they don’t have to be 400+ pages to be a good read. Continue reading →

This book covers an immense canvas – the whole universe, really. Fortunately (or un- depending on how you think), most of what we know is about our own planet, and a great deal of the book is spent on Earth … Continue reading →

An excellent narrative about a 1913 attempt to discover a continent below the ice at the North Pole. Somewhat obviously they didn’t find one, and they all nearly died trying. A great story, vividly told using official (and unofficial) diaries … Continue reading →

I took this huge debut novel on a quick holiday to Hawaii and back, which earned me a few strange looks, but it was well worth it. It clocks in at just under 950 pages, or about three trees. This … Continue reading →

I read this because his Devil in the White City was such an eye-opener of a book, both in it’s content and it’s wide-lensed narrative, and I was eager to check out his earlier work. Isaac’s Storm did not disappoint. … Continue reading →