The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings
First watch the movie, then read the book. I know it is backwards but you get to put George Clooney’s face to the character which I think compensates.
The book is narrated by Matt King, who is the protagonist of this novel. He is a royal descendant and one of the state’s largest landowner. His wife is in a permanent coma after a boating accident. He [...]
I finally finished the third instalment of A Song of Ice and Fire series – A Storm of Swords. It is a huge book; it has a total of 1,216 pages (US Paperback). It is so long that in UK it was split in half and in France it was cut into four separate editions.
The opening of this book slightly overlaps with the ending of the previous book. The seven [...]
J.K. Rowling finished writing the final book in the Harry Potter fantasy franchise on January 11, 2007 and marked the occasion by leaving graffiti in a Scottish hotel. Eagle-eyed guests at the five-star Balmoral Hotel spotted a line from the best-selling author scrawled in black pen on the back of a marble bust in a room Rowling occupied. She wrote, “J.K. Rowling finished writing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows [...]
