[Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe: An Investigation]

Not yet read this.

[The Bear and The Nightingale]

I heartily recommend all three of these too. I just loved them, so much so that I replaced the paper copies that I'd  given away with e-copies. 

[The Pastures of Heaven]

Finished reading

[The Retreat]

Currently reading

[The Third Man]

Currently reading

[The Sign of the Devil]

This is the e-book version the ISBN is the ASIN number

[The Drinker]

I agree wholeheartedly with Hux's assessment of this book. It is outstanding and well worth reading

[Post Office]

10 hours ago, Raven said:

I don't think Bukowski is offensive (and you can certainly read his books without being American yourself!)

 

I can see why some might not get one with it, but he wrote about life as he lived it, just under the guise of it being fiction.

 

One of my favourite authors.

 

I found it offensive but that is just my opinion and the comment (from BGO) was : as a result of not being American I missed most of the cultural/traditional/societal references that Bukowski naturally writes about. I have and do read American authors all the time without a problem (except the odd struggle, which I enjoy, with my  favourite author William Faulkner). 

[Hunger]

I read this book too and agree wholeheartedly with Hux's review. 
 

Outstanding.

[Post Office]

Although I read it to the end - it wasn't very long - I did not like the book at all and I didn't like Bukowski. Someone on the now defunct Book Group Online suggested that because I'm not American Bukowski would come across as offensive, and he did.

[The Old Curiosity Shop]

It gives me enormous personal pleasure to read Charles Dickens because for a very long time I assumed that his writing was far too intellectual for the likes of me.  I read Oliver Twist and discovered that it's not!

 

I love The Old Curiosity Shop and plan to read it again some time in the future. It's a nice long book - this copy is 608 pages long (I read the e-book version) - with plenty to get my teeth into. Yes, it's wordy and Dickens does make many descriptions in much detail but it's just a case of getting used to it and then it's amazing! Towards the end I was getting cross if I was interrupted and during the day I looked forward to finding out what happened next.

 

To the story.  It's about an old man and his granddaughter and what befalls them as a result of his life. She is around 14 years old and he is in his eighties. The old man ran The Old Curiosity Shop until ......... but I don't want to spoil the story. It did bring me to tears in the third chapter from the end, I found it so moving, and that has never happened to me before. 

 

I'm glad that I read it, I will continue to read Dickens and I thoroughly recommend this.