book report, may
* Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832 by Stella Tillyard. It's a biography, based on the letters, written by the Lennox sisters-Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah. Author Stella Tillyard gives a second life to these 18th-century aristocrats, whose extended family included some of the most significant and colorful British political figures of the era. She mixes impeccable research, a sharp eye for detail, and a writing style that's both precise and lively to produce a biography of a clan that doubles as a panoramic history of the aristocracy in the 1700s. It's a joy to read and it's a piece of British history.
* Fallen - The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates. I usually love Oates books, but I didn't like this one at all. It tells the story of Ariah, a woman whose husband threw himself over Niagara Falls. The rest of the book is the story of her life and family, and how she finds love, then loses it again.
* Sista andetaget - The Last Breath by Denise Mina. This is the third book about the Glasgow journalist Patricia "Paddy" Meehan. Mina is one of my favorite crime authors, but this one was not as good at the two first in the series.
* Vänaste land by Åke Edwardson. The 8th book in the series about Inspector Winter. Not the best in the series, perhaps the weaksest so far.. But an intersting story.
