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‘To see a world in a grain of sand…’ - William Blake I have read quite a few of Joanne Harris’s books and loved them all of to date. Coastliners is very different to her other books however it certainly delivers. It is an immersive island read and by that I mean you get sucked in with the tide and im Leggi tutto

Пръски от пяната на разбушувано есенно море върху остър, скалист бряг без ни едно зрънце пясък. Вкус на сол, самота и вечност. Дали човек е самотен остров? Или капка в океана? Припомних си защо харесвам Джоан Харис. Тръпчива, злостна на моменти, иронично насмешлива и дълбоко подмолна история на едно Leggi tutto

Apparently, I am on a kick where I read books that don't turn out to be that enjoyable. Having enjoyed two other books by Joanne Harris, I thought this would probably be a good one too. Not so much. This is the story of a group of families who live in a village on an island off the coast of France. T Leggi tutto

I have to say that I was frustrated to fuming for a good part of the time spent reading this. Why? Because I had such high expectations from Joanne Harris. I am frustrated with myself for not realizing this already. She is writing to the masses. I know for a fact that French natives hate her books.

Меня тут спрашивали, что почитать летом, когда голова выключается. Вот отличная книжка, которую я всегда рекомендую тем, кто собирается в отпуск: очень приключенческая, очень морская и соленая, а за сюжетом только поспевай, но без ущерба для выразительных средств языка. Как часто у Хэррис, в центре в Leggi tutto

Having read a few books by Joanne Harris, I knew a bit of what to expect. A great love of travel, and some wonderful setting in France would be a background to the tale, and a heroine in search of herself to pull us through the story. Coastliners only exception is the fact that rather than set in Fr Leggi tutto

You know when you read a bunch of books by a fabulous author and you hit that one novel that just doesn't measure up to the rest? Coastliners is French author Joanne Harris' lackluster effort. Coastliners is the story of the inhabitants of an island in France called Le Devine. The island is sharply

Nice little story, but painfully slow A young woman, Mado, returns to the island of her birth following the death of her mother in Paris. She has been scraping a living as a painter, but the small, split community of the Brittany island of Le Devin seems to be calling to her. She wants to care for he Leggi tutto

Há tantos anos que andava para ler este livro. Finalmente comprei-o num alfarrabista por uma bagatela, este ano, na feira do livro. Sou uma grande fã desta senhora, já li grande parte da sua obra, um dos meus livros favoritos foi escrito por ela, e sem dúvida que ela tem romances deliciosos. Este é Leggi tutto