Hanne's blog

I finally finished this book after perhaps 5 years. It is drafts and old notes of the tales that ends up as Silmarillion, collected and commented by Christopher Tolkien. It is perhaps an interesting study of (J.R.R) Tolkien's authorship. You get to s… more »

This book is different from the two predecessors "The Selfish Gene" and "The Blind Watchmaker" in the sense that their target group was lay people, whereas this one requires quite some knowledge about biology, or being good at guessing from context...… more »

"500 a year and a room of one's own, with a lock on the door". That is what women should have had, according to Virginia Woolf, in order for a woman to to have been able to write "War and Peace" or the works of Shakespeare. The book is about Women… more »

I don't know why I have this book. I don't remember buying it. Looks like it has been bought in an airport. It is a mixture between an Agatha Christie thriller and the Da Vinci Code. In other words I was extremely not impressed by the plot. Young… more »

Thin fantasy book I bought some months ago because I needed a break in reading serious stuff. I also think someone recommended this author to me. Didn't get around to reading it until now when I was ill... It is an extra book belonging to a series, k… more »