http://www.myweeklybook.net The challenge: to read 52 books in one calendar year Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:46:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.myweeklybook.net/2010/06/04/the-world-without-us-alan-weisman/ http://www.myweeklybook.net/2010/06/04/the-world-without-us-alan-weisman/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:19:19 +0000 The Bookworm http://www.myweeklybook.net/?p=476 http://www.myweeklybook.net/2010/06/04/the-world-without-us-alan-weisman/feed/ 0 http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/12/06/pretty-much-the-whole-of-2008-in-one-go/ http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/12/06/pretty-much-the-whole-of-2008-in-one-go/#comments Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:18:41 +0000 The Bookworm http://www.myweeklybook.net/?p=323 http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/12/06/pretty-much-the-whole-of-2008-in-one-go/feed/ 0 http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/05/05/the-many-coloured-land-julian-may/ http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/05/05/the-many-coloured-land-julian-may/#comments Mon, 05 May 2008 17:30:25 +0000 The Bookworm http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/05/05/the-many-coloured-land-julian-may/ Modesty Blaise novels. Feeling daunted by the sheer scale of Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey/Maturin saga, and yet wanting something with a bit of staying power, this eight (or sometimes nine) volume science fiction epic seemed like an excellent choice - and so it has proved.]]> http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/05/05/the-many-coloured-land-julian-may/feed/ 0 http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/04/21/modesty-blaise-the-puppet-master-peter-o%e2%80%99donnell-and-romero/ http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/04/21/modesty-blaise-the-puppet-master-peter-o%e2%80%99donnell-and-romero/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:11:26 +0000 The Bookworm http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/04/21/modesty-blaise-the-puppet-master-peter-o%e2%80%99donnell-and-romero/ The Puppet-Master of the title, With Love from Rufus and The Bluebeard Affair. It's fair to say that this is one of the lighter-hearted collections.]]> http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/04/21/modesty-blaise-the-puppet-master-peter-o%e2%80%99donnell-and-romero/feed/ 0 http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/04/20/jane-austen-a-life-claire-tomalin/ http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/04/20/jane-austen-a-life-claire-tomalin/#comments Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:18:52 +0000 The Bookworm http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/04/20/jane-austen-a-life-claire-tomalin/ Sense and Sensibility, Emma and the fragments Sanditon and The Watsons over the course of the last few months I had been promising myself a crack at this very well-received biography, published in 1997, next.]]> http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/04/20/jane-austen-a-life-claire-tomalin/feed/ 0 http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/04/18/dead-man%e2%80%99s-handle-%e2%80%93-peter-o%e2%80%99donnell/ http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/04/18/dead-man%e2%80%99s-handle-%e2%80%93-peter-o%e2%80%99donnell/#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:39:19 +0000 The Bookworm http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/04/18/dead-man%e2%80%99s-handle-%e2%80%93-peter-o%e2%80%99donnell/ Modesty Blaise novels that started at the end of last year, with the help of a devoted fan who was kind enough to read the whole lot out loud,this signifies the end.]]> http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/04/18/dead-man%e2%80%99s-handle-%e2%80%93-peter-o%e2%80%99donnell/feed/ 0 http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/03/31/modesty-blaise-death-of-a-jester-peter-o%e2%80%99donnell-jim-holdaway-and-romero/ http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/03/31/modesty-blaise-death-of-a-jester-peter-o%e2%80%99donnell-jim-holdaway-and-romero/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:58:21 +0000 The Bookworm http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/03/31/modesty-blaise-death-of-a-jester-peter-o%e2%80%99donnell-jim-holdaway-and-romero/ http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/03/31/modesty-blaise-death-of-a-jester-peter-o%e2%80%99donnell-jim-holdaway-and-romero/feed/ 0 http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/03/30/modesty-blaise-the-warlords-of-phoenix-peter-o%e2%80%99donnell-jim-holdaway-and-romero/ http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/03/30/modesty-blaise-the-warlords-of-phoenix-peter-o%e2%80%99donnell-jim-holdaway-and-romero/#comments Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:41:14 +0000 The Bookworm http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/03/30/modesty-blaise-the-warlords-of-phoenix-peter-o%e2%80%99donnell-jim-holdaway-and-romero/ http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/03/30/modesty-blaise-the-warlords-of-phoenix-peter-o%e2%80%99donnell-jim-holdaway-and-romero/feed/ 0 http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/03/29/the-night-of-morningstar-peter-o%e2%80%99donnell/ http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/03/29/the-night-of-morningstar-peter-o%e2%80%99donnell/#comments Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:02:28 +0000 The Bookworm http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/03/29/the-night-of-morningstar-peter-o%e2%80%99donnell/ http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/03/29/the-night-of-morningstar-peter-o%e2%80%99donnell/feed/ 0 http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/02/25/pieces-of-modesty-peter-o%e2%80%99donnell/ http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/02/25/pieces-of-modesty-peter-o%e2%80%99donnell/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:04:42 +0000 The Bookworm http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/02/25/pieces-of-modesty-peter-o%e2%80%99donnell/ Pieces of Modesty is a first. It's a short story collection technically bridging the period between the major adventures of The Impossible Virgin and The Silver Mistress but the stories were, in many cases, written earlier and then not published. Many of them were, apparently, even illustrated. And, as the Wikipedia article on this collection points out, some elements are re-used in the newspaper strips.]]> http://www.myweeklybook.net/2008/02/25/pieces-of-modesty-peter-o%e2%80%99donnell/feed/ 0