Hawksmoor
7 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by 
shnedwards
from Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Tuesday, September 4, 2007
shnedwards from Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren, has a commission to build seven London churches to stand as beacons of the Enlightenment. But Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each church - to create a forbidding architecture that will survive for eternity.
Two hundred and fifty years later, London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sites of certain eighteenth-century churches - crimes that make no sense to the modern mind...
Reserved for luckaye's 1001 Books VBB
To send to VeganMedusa
Two hundred and fifty years later, London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sites of certain eighteenth-century churches - crimes that make no sense to the modern mind...
Reserved for luckaye's 1001 Books VBB
To send to VeganMedusa
Journal Entry 2 by shnedwards from Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Friday, November 23, 2007
shnedwards from Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Friday, November 23, 2007
On its way to VeganMedusa. Hope you enjoy it!
Thanks shnedwards (and for the lovely goodies included)!
Posted today to dolphin-au for the Southern Cross exchange. :)
Oh, yes - I did actually read it. Found it a bit tough to get through. I don't know - it was just a bit strange and I wanted more from it, some resolution at the end.
Journal Entry 6 by dolphin-au from Lake Macquarie, New South Wales Australia on Saturday, April 19, 2008
Received this book from my wishlist as part of the April Southern Crossing exchange. Thanks VeganMedusa!
Journal Entry 7 by dolphin-au from Lake Macquarie, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Finally got around to read this, but sadly was a bit disappointed. In the end I got thoroughly sick of all the similarities between the two main characters, and the story as a whole did not make much sense to me. All this brooding about the dark side does not really appeal to me either, so the book on the whole did not do that much for me.
Thanks VeganMedusa for sending it to me though. Another notch on 1001 list!
I'll try to let this book continue its travels.
Thanks VeganMedusa for sending it to me though. Another notch on 1001 list!
I'll try to let this book continue its travels.
Released 13 yrs ago (8/13/2010 UTC) at Bellingen, New South Wales Australia
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Sent to Stubee as part of the 1001 VBB
Thanks dolphin-au it's arrived safe and sound, this will fit nicely on to my TBR pile.
Off the TBR pile after 3913 days.
A wonderful, intriguing detective story very unusually told over two different times in London. Brilliantly and beautifully written, I just loved the descriptions of the masonry work.
Received from Stubee and added to the TBR pile!
Hmm, not really sure about this one. Some of the writing, the description and the imagery and sense of feeling and atmosphere it evoked, particularly in the chapters told by Nicholas Dyer, were beautiful. However, it was a bit of a challenge to get through in places and the parallels and repetition between the two centuries just seemed to come to no conclusion or real ending.
Glad to have crossed another book off the 1001 list, but not sure I'd be recommending this one to people!
Glad to have crossed another book off the 1001 list, but not sure I'd be recommending this one to people!
Getting this ready to send to a new home.
On it's way to 4evagreen, hope you enjoy this novel. Happy Reading!
Journal Entry 16 by 4evagreen at Furness Vale, Derbyshire United Kingdom on Friday, February 3, 2023
Arrived safely. Many thanks for sharing I look forward to reading it.
Journal Entry 17 by 4evagreen at Furness Vale, Derbyshire United Kingdom on Thursday, December 7, 2023
The plot rambles and nothing much happens for large chunks of it. Even the ending is inconclusive. By the time I'd reached the end of the book I wondered why I'd bothered. This is my least enjoyable of the three books by the author that I've read but on the plus side it did make me go and read more background about Nick Dyer and his churches.
Hopefully the next reader will get more out of it than I did.
Hopefully the next reader will get more out of it than I did.
Going out as part of a Wishlist Tag thread. Enjoy!
Journal Entry 19 by kingfan30 at Somewhere in Lincs 🤷‍♂️, Lincolnshire United Kingdom on Saturday, December 9, 2023
What a well travelled book. Thank you for the tag
