This week, The Book Gnome will be mostly crushing on the latest series of ‘Supernatural’. Demons, monsters, heavy metal puns and cute evil-hunters, all packaged up with a humorous tone last seen effectively applied in ‘The X-Files’ … what’s not to love?
- The header picture is a shot I took looking out onto Chesterman Beach, Tofino on Vancouver Island ... the place I would most like to be looking out at whilst reading books.
Recent Tweets from The Book Gnome
- .. Have to go and buy coat for Jr as I left it in the kitchen. She may have learnt some new choice phrases from Tata this morning in the car 5 hours ago
- Spent over an hour digging car out of drive and road this morning ... won't be able to get back up hill if snow stays ... 5 hours ago
- just added The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer: Abacus (2007), Edition: New ed.. http://bit.ly/71RYMz to #librarything 8 hours ago
- just added Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald: Penguin (2002), Edition: New Ed, Paperback, 4.. http://bit.ly/5UvEM3 to #librarything 8 hours ago
- Another few cm of snow fell between hometime & now & it's still going - road's like glass below - not looking forward to commute tomorrow 20 hours ago
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Latest Reviews
Read them in full on my Reviews Blog
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
The Island at the End of the World by Sam Taylor
The Taker and Other Stories by Rubem Fonseca
In the Land of Invisible Women by Qanta Ahmed
Currently Reading
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Beowulf (Norton Critical Edition) translated by Seamus Heaney
Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewiecz
The Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski

