A sad and tender book about a boy growing in a graveyard.
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malglam rated The Importance of Being Earnest: 5 stars
Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest (2005)
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on …
malglam reviewed The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where …
Review of 'The Graveyard Book' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
malglam reviewed A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (A Study in Scarlet, #1)
A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. …
Review of 'A Study in Scarlet' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
I never think that the Sherlock Holmes stories where so enjoyable. I really liked this one.
malglam reviewed The City & the City by China Miéville
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge …
Review of 'The City & the City' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Strange story about two cities knitted together. I never get to understand the need of the two cities sharing the same space.
El Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges
In Borges' story, the Aleph is a point in space that contains all other points. Anyone who gazes into it …
malglam rated Green Eggs and Ham (Dr. Seuss): 5 stars
malglam rated The Hobbit: 5 stars
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings)
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends …
malglam rated CRANFORD; ED. BY PATRICIA INGHAM.: 3 stars
CRANFORD; ED. BY PATRICIA INGHAM. by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (PENGUIN CLASSICS)
Cranford was first serialized in Charles Dickens’ magazine Household Words between 1851 and 1853. The structureless nature of the stories, …
Review of 'La reina sin espejo (Bevilacqua y Chamorro, #5)' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Interesting.
malglam rated The Elegance of the Hedgehog: 1 star
malglam rated Sin Noticias de Gurb: 2 stars
Sin Noticias de Gurb by Eduardo Mendoza
Perdido en la Barcelona preolímpica, el extraterrestre Gurb pone al servicio de su supervivencia la extraña cualidad de adoptar el …
malglam reviewed American Gods (American Gods, #1) by Neil Gaiman
American Gods (2001) is a fantasy novel by British author Neil Gaiman. The novel is …
Review of 'American Gods (American Gods, #1)' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
I liked the atmosphere in this book, liked the idea behind and liked how well fiction and reality are mixed. But in the end, this book seems to go nowhere. The end is just a big pluf, so anticlimatic.
malglam rated War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics): 3 stars
Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics) (1998, Oxford University Press, USA)
War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace centers broadly on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the best-known characters in …
malglam rated Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1): 3 stars
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter #1
When mysterious letters start arriving on his doorstep, Harry Potter has never heard of Hogwarts School of …