From Argentina: Second on my 2014 Global Reading Challenge list for South America, is Ernesto Mallo's Needle in a Haystack, translated from the Spanish by Jethro Soutar, the first book in the Inspector Lascano series. Here's an overview thanks to the Reactions to Reading Blog: In 1976 Argentina’s Dirty War had begun and its … [Read more...]
No Moody Sleuth in Garry Disher’s The Dragon Man
'Reading Round the World - South Australia When I find a book such as Garry Disher’s The Dragon Man, which has garnered so many good reviews, read it expecting ‘everything’, then find myself getting more and more disgruntled chapter by chapter… well, I worry that I must have managed to miss something. So this time, I left it a … [Read more...]
READING ‘ROUND THE WORLD – CUBA
The Havana Quartet, because I couldn't stop at just one... Havana Blue (Mario Conde #1) by Leonardo Padura is the title on my list for the 2014 Global Reading Challenge, the North American section, Cuba in particular. I wasn't quite satisfied with just the one, so I'm reading the quartet: Havana Blue, Havana Gold, Havana Red, and this … [Read more...]
Reading ‘Round the World – update
Just a quick update... I've added a few more titles and changed others on my 2014 Global Reading Challenge page: Added Havana Blue (Mario Conde #1) by Leonardo Padura (Cuba) to complete the North American trio. Added Nairobi Heat (Ishmael and O #1) by Mukoma Wa Ngugi (Kenya) to African list. Need one more here. Considering either … [Read more...]