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Kerry Greenwood's Unnatural Habits
I discovered Greenwood quite by chance somewhere around 2007. And ever since I have eagerly awaited the next installment of a Phryne Fisher or Corrinna Chapman mystery. You can just imagine how thrilled I was when ABC started airing the TV series of Phryne Fisher last year. Accordingly I was excited to find a new offering – Phryne’s 19th outing Unnatural Habits. I bought it to read on my flight overseas at the end of the year and avoided it till I was in my plane seat. Phryne is much the same, the same devil may care attitude towards social conventions that don’t make any sense, the same thrill…
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The Sri Lankan "war generation" and the books that "made" us.
A while back, I got a bit annoyed at this article: http://flavorwire.com/152850/books-that-rocked-your-world-at-16-but-fall-flat-now So I wrote this one specifically for a very general “war generation” (1980 onwards) Sri Lankan audience: http://marisa.com.au/books/?p=142 Go have a read. Tell me what you think. Oh and if you want to read Perth Diary (yes, it’s running again), look no further than here: http://marisa.com.au/?category_name=perth-diary-articles This week is about cricket by the way – fuel thy addiction! Complaints, criticism, rants, comments, suggestions, ideas are all welcome. Off you go! You know you want to!
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Book review: Boris Akunin's Pelagia & the Black Monk
Marisa Wikramanayake reviews Russian author Boris Akunin's second novel in the Pelagia crime fiction series: Pelagia & the Black Monk. This review was previously published on Blogcritics.com
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Book Review – Terry Pratchett's Unseen Academicals
Marisa Wikramanayake reviews Terry Pratchett's latest novel in the Discworld Series, Unseen Academicals and lists links to buy the book online. Sometimes you just get lucky. Lucky is what I am. Terry Pratchett's latest novel Unseen Academicals gets released today (Oct. 6th) in the United States but if you are in Australia, it's already out in hardcover in the stores for $49.95 AUD. Amazon has it here for $14.03 USD.
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Book Review: Pelagia & The White Bulldog
Marisa Wikramanayake is a freelance editor and writer. Here, she reviews Boris Akunin's Pelagia & The White Bulldog, the first in a crime fiction series involving a nun as the detective and set in 19th Century rural Russia.
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Book Review Published: Graham Greene's May We Borrow Your Husband?
Marisa Wikramanayake is a freelance writer and editor based in Perth, Australia. In this entry, she reviews Graham Greene's May We Borrow Your Husband? published in 1967. Marisa has been blogging since 1998 and she is currently writing her second novel, a historical work, a poetry collection and a collection of the best work from the Perth Diary columns that she writes for the weekly Sunday Leader newspaper. When she isn't too tired from all that she reviews music for RTR and books for Compendium. Then she plays with the cat and plays drums in an indie rock band.
