false 1385097 35 male London, The United Kingdom 07/2008 12/2009 13 382 375 true 5690690 read 1 true 2958547 currently-reading 6 true 2958546 to-read 73 false 2959758 around-the-world 24 false 4536468 europe 15 false 4536411 africa 14 false 4536438 asia 8 false 4536470 caribbean 5 false 4536510 southern-africa 5 false 4536477 south-america 5 false 4536469 pacific 4 false 4536482 scandinavia 4 false 4536433 middle-east 4 false 4536519 north-africa 4 false 4536424 balkans 4 false 4094690 caribbean-reading-challenge 4 false 4536575 west-africa 3 false 4536556 north-america 3 false 4536495 central-asia 2 false 4536603 east-africa 2 false 4536478 central-america 1 false 4536486 baltics 1 false 4536502 south-east-asia http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/89626-authors-of-the-world-2009 http://photo.goodreads.com/groups/1216991502p2/822.jpg 1385097 Harry Rutherford http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1217536148p2/1385097.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1385097-harry-rutherford Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:59:22 -0800 Chaka (African Writers Series) by Thomas Mofolo]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79401405 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180994788s/1101837.jpg 1385097 Harry Rutherford http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1217536148p2/1385097.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1385097-harry-rutherford Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:12:11 -0800 Chaka is a fictionalised account of the life of the C19th Zulu king Shaka. It’s unusually early for an African novel, originally published in 1925 but existing in manuscript in some form as early as 1910.

I wasn’t entirely looking forward to reading it. It has started to really bother...more...]]> Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (Five Star Paperback) by Jorge Amado]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78722561 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181703070s/1182499.jpg 1385097 Harry Rutherford http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1217536148p2/1385097.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1385097-harry-rutherford Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:39:42 -0800 Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands is a novel about a cooking teacher whose first husband is a charming lowlife, who is always disappearing in search of wine, women, song and roulette, and her second marriage to an upright, responsible, devoted pharmacist who, for all his good qualities, is duller and m...more...]]> Island boy: An autobiography (Paperback) by Tom Davis]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75351794 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Z1E7QRZVL._SL75_.jpg 1385097 Harry Rutherford http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1217536148p2/1385097.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1385097-harry-rutherford Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:20:07 -0700 Island Boy is his autobiography. He was undoubtedly an impress...more...]]> Unseen Academicals (Discworld, #37) by Terry Pratchett]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73610059 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242453726s/6341533.jpg 1385097 Harry Rutherford http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1217536148p2/1385097.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1385097-harry-rutherford Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:02:47 -0700
But there's still more simple pleasure to b...more...]]> The Culture of Lies (Paperback) by Dubravka Ugrešić]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73086381 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173128352s/249327.jpg 1385097 Harry Rutherford http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1217536148p2/1385097.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1385097-harry-rutherford Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:12:03 -0700 The Culture of Lies by Dubravka Ugrešić is a book of essays written between 1991 and 1996 — that is, during and just after the wars that resulted from the collapse of Yugoslavia. It is my book from Croatia for the Read The World challenge, although there is a slight awkwardness to that choice. T...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47580301 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178692042s/822948.jpg 1385097 Harry Rutherford http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1217536148p2/1385097.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1385097-harry-rutherford Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:15:04 -0700 Beka Lamb (Paperback) by Zee Edgell]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71985068 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KrsaCCYoL._SL75_.jpg 1385097 Harry Rutherford http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1217536148p2/1385097.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1385097-harry-rutherford Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:23:02 -0700 Beka Lamb tells the story of a few months in the life of a fourteen-year-old girl — Beka — and her slightly older friend Toycie, who both attend a convent school in Belize. It’s published as part of the Heinemann Caribbean Writers Series, and so it has one of those rather off-puttingly institu...more...]]> Them (Paperback) by Jon Ronson]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71528332 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168919046s/37471.jpg 1385097 Harry Rutherford http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1217536148p2/1385097.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1385097-harry-rutherford Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:00:46 -0700 The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover) by Richard Dawkins]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71283901 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51M-g8sSbrL._SL75_.jpg 1385097 Harry Rutherford http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1217536148p2/1385097.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1385097-harry-rutherford Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:18:24 -0700