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Finished off another category, Published in the Last Ten Years, with Benjamin Black's The Silver Swan.
What a depressing bunch of people! Otherwise, a well-written crime novel. 3.5* ... series that I don't think I want to tackle. Any suggestions?
Now I am taking a mystery break for awhile - starting with The Silver Swan, the second in the Benjamin Black (aka John Banville) series about an Irish forensic pathologist in the 1950's. So far alot of well-written atmosphere, not ... ... rest of the year is 25, and next year I hope to reach the whole 75 with the rest of you. Here are my last two reads:
1. Silver Swan by Benjamin Black Interesting Irish mystery. I'm going to read his other novel Christine Falls
2. Vineyard Chill by Phillip R. Craig Light enjoyable ... The Silver Swan is Black/Banville's sequel to Christine Falls. I thought it was good, but perhaps not quite as good as the first. Worth a look, for sure. The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black--ER copy
"Missing" by Karin Alvtegen
The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders by Marshall Browne
All excellent crime/mystery novels. The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black--ER copy
"Missing" by Karin Alvtegen
The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders by Marshall Browne
All excellent crime/mystery novels. Title: The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black
Date arrived: Early April
Method of Delivery: USPS
Packaging: Padded mailer
Book format: paperback
Publisher: Picador
Inserts: Postcard from Picador Marketing
... in mid-century Dublin, with the protagonist a widowed pathologist. Christine Falls was excellent and I was pleased to get The Silver Swan as my ER book this time. If anything, The Silver Swan is even better than Christine Falls. I very much hope he keeps writing more in this series.
Black's ... ... in mid-century Dublin, with the protagonist a widowed pathologist. Christine Falls was excellent and I was pleased to get The Silver Swan as my ER book this time. If anything, The Silver Swan is even better than Christine Falls. I very much hope he keeps writing more in this series.
Blac ... Just finished The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black. Currently reading memoir The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer in Adobe Digital Editions from Overdrive. I can't help laughing out loud at some of the scenes in "Bar"; truly an enjoyable read so far. Also listening to CD Audio of The Shift ... ... with what I'm reading now.
The Brothers Karamazov -- I'm almost done, I've been reading it off and on since February.
The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black -- the sequel to the excellent and equally gloomy Christine Falls.
Fall on Your Knees by Anne-Marie MacDonald
The Secret H ... After the Benjamin Black book I thought I'd take a light break before tackling The Silver Swan and chose a Chick Lit by a British author, Jane Green, that I hadn't read before. Bookends was light and fluffy, with serviceable writing but tried to do too many things in too short a book, ... Silver Swan arrived, hurray!
Title: Silver Swan, by Benjamin Black
Date Arrived: 3/17
Arrived in: Massachusetts. ... one :o) This is the second title for the author's character, I could see myself checking the series out again.
As for The Silver Swan, I'm about to start it today. I really enjoyed Christine Falls, particularly the bits about forensic pathology in Ireland in the 1950's.
I really want ... >201: oh, bother. I thought Christine Falls was a GREAT book. Sorry to hear The Silver Swan doesn't really make the cut (I have a copy on the physical shelf). 24. The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black
Quirke's back in The Silver Swan, Benjamin Black's sequel to Christine Falls. He's as quirky as ever - except now he's stopped drinking and he's trying in his own way to make amends with his daughter. In The Silver Swan, an old school acquaintance has ... I'm glad you didn't give up on BookMooch! And I, too, scored an excellent early reviewers book -- The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black. Just started Benjamin Black's The Silver Swan, the sequel to Christine Falls. It's excellent so far! ... fiction that reads like literary fiction.
Another writer who does this is Benjamin Black. Read Christine Falls and The Silver Swan. Benjamin Black is the name John Banville uses for his noir-ish detective novels.
Oh, I can't resist a bookclub shout-out for Denise Mina who writes ... ... inc. pathology, fiction, etc.
1. Remains Silent, Michael Baden DONE
2. Written in Bone, Simon Beckett DONE
3. The Silver Swan, Benjamin Black DONE
4. The Firemaker, Peter May DONE
5. Monday Mourning, Kathy Reichs DONE
6. Animal Investigators: How the World's First Wildlife F ... I enjoyed Christine Falls as well and went on to read The Silver Swan which I note had an interesting ending. ... that well, so in text form...
Top shelf:
The Story of Childhood - Libby Brooks
The Sweetest Dream - Doris Lessing
The Silver Swan - Benjamin Black
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Gods Behaving Badly - Marie Phill ... 81. The Silver Swan ... by Benjamin Black
Quirke returns to encounter an old acquaintance from medical school who requests a favor regarding the postmortem of his wife. His daughter becomes involved in some very murky and murderous business. There is quite a twist at the end. ... Takagi -- The Tattoo Murder Case
4. Benjamin Black -- Christine Falls and The Silver Swan
6. Karin Alvtegen -- Shadow
7. Tana French -- The Likeness
8. Cornelia Read -- A Field ... ... to Live Dangerously - Warwick Cairns
Books v Cigarettes - George Orwell
The Baby in the Mirror - Charles Fernyhough
The Silver Swan - Benjamin Black
but then there are so many more that have been on the shelves for months unread!! And also most are non-fiction and I am not sure I'm in ... ... the Benjamin Black reading. I don't read a lot of mysteries, but I really liked Christine Falls. I'm hoping to get to The Silver Swan soon.
... Falls was fantastic, and am going to hear "Benjamin Black" read from The Lemur in October - hoping it will be good! The Silver Swan is on my TBR list as well. Some great books on your list. ... I'm not interested enough to return to either of these two books to confirm my inference.
What do other readers of The Silver Swan and Christine Falls think? ... Kellerman
10. World Without End, Ken Follett
9. The Last Kingdom, (The Saxon Novels, Book 1), Bernard Cornwell
8. The Silver Swan, Benjamin Black
7. Christine Falls, Benjamin Black
6. Heretic, (The Grail Quest, Book 3), Bernard Cornwell
5. The Innocent Man, John Grisham
4. ... ... too.
Yes, Christine Falls is a mystery - the first in a series, from what I understand. The second just came out - The Silver Swan. I haven't read it. Although it's definitely a different genre for Banville, the writing is still superb.
Now I'll have to add Gail Jones to my list ... ... for going to that trouble for me. How wonderful to be able to ask for and receive such help!
As it's turned out The Silver Swan wasn't as much to my taste as I had hoped it would be; after the initial stravaiging by the culchie there wasn't much of linguistic interest. However, I do ... The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black (John Banville) is an interesting book which I think is probably quite evocative of Dublin life in the 1950s. My first visit to Ireland was in the early 1960s and I can recognise many of the traits of the characters in The Silver Swan, and this writer ... Lush Life by Richard Price
Clockers by Richard Price
The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black ... I really enjoyed the book and I am grateful to have received a copy. I am a Banville fan and I look forward to reading The Silver Swan. It may be intimidating that the NYT and NYBR have reviewed the book already, but I think I bring the perspective of an avid reader, but not a professional ... ... 2008:
The Gathering by Anne Enright
Zugzwang by Ronan Bennett
Redemption Falls by Jospeh O'Connor
The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black (aka John Banville) ... (pseudonym for John Banville) excellent second in the series of mysteries involving the Dublin pathologist, Quirke, The Silver Swan. Black’s follow up to Christine Falls was an excellent, fast passed whodunit with (no big surprise) some beautiful prose. My only negative criticism of ...
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