"Book review" is a very grand title for what appears here - it is really nothing more than a collection of notes and thoughts on some of the books I have read, jotted down as much to help me remember as to guide others. Still, I hope that they will be of some use or interest to others.   The Minotaur Takes and Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill (December 2006) Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov (December 2006) The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith (December 2006) The Bewitching of Anne Gunter by James Sharpe (November 2006) Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (November 2006) The Battle of Dorking by George Chesney (November 2006) Before She Met Me by Julian Barnes (November 2006) A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka (added June 2006) The Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kristen Bakis (added June 2006) The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey (added May 2006) The Mystery of the Princes in the Tower by Audrey Williamson (added Jan 06) The Blind Assassin by Margaret Attwood (added April 2006) The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Added April 2006) Don't Make Me Laugh by Patrick Augustus (added May 2006) Guardian of the Dawn by Richard Zimler (November 2004)