Showing posts with label novels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label novels. Show all posts
Monday, July 28, 2014

Summer reading

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What have I been reading recently? Nice of you to ask - I have been reading more than I might, because it's been the kind of weather tha...
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

War and Peace and the new translation

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I've done it. Another of the imperatives crossed off the list, which only means, presumably, that I draw closer to shuffling off this ...
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Monday, March 11, 2013

Yes, I'm still reading ...

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It's been a while since I last reviewed a book - November saw the last, I think - and I've almost forgotten what I've read since...
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Saturday, November 17, 2012

Plotless novel of the religious life

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My mother gave me a copy of Sylvia Townsend Warner's novel The Corner That Held Them for Christmas in 1992. I read it at the time wit...
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Saturday, July 21, 2012

I and me and chord sequences

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Oh bother. I'm feeling a grump coming on. Having spent longer than is sensible reading old green Penguins - see past entries - I buy a c...
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Saturday, June 30, 2012

Hamlet, revenge!

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I was interested to see that at least one person had offered on Amazon the very copy of Michael Innes's Hamlet, Revenge that I have j...
Friday, May 04, 2012

Stylish nonsense

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There are times when the brain shrinks and all one needs is the soothing assurance of a good friend - like, for instance, when one has a b...
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Wednesday, May 02, 2012

Rite of passage

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I became acquainted with the writing of Michael Arditti through the meticulous and often hilarious Easter , and wishlisted his rite-of-pas...
Monday, April 23, 2012

Fragmentation capured in a first novel

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Writing on Shakespeare's birthday, I'm tempted to report that my withers are wrung by Samantha Harvey's The Wilderness .  This...
Sunday, April 15, 2012

Deeply satisfying

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A couple of weeks ago now I finished reading Vikram Seth's An Equal Music  - though if I'd read the review published on the Amazon...
Friday, March 09, 2012

Another for the suitcase

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I've just finished Erin Kelly's novel The Poison Tree . If you follow the link to Amazon, you can watch a short video of the author ...
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Saturday, December 31, 2011

Round-up

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Last read of the year I realise, through the Lemsip-induced haze of another cold, that I've been remiss in reviewing books recently. ...
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Sunday, August 21, 2011

Helped by The Help

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Belting through fiction as I am this summer, I feel that at least this one merited the (relatively brief) time I spent on it. I rattled thro...
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Friday, August 12, 2011

Jubilate fails to grip

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I thoroughly enjoyed Michael Arditti's Easter - so much so that I laughed aloud at the first page and exclaimed with horrified delight ...
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Sunday, July 31, 2011

Dancing Backwards for a holiday

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I always save promising books for holidays - by which I mean time spent away from home - and almost always end up hardly reading at all beca...
Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Chew, don't swallow.

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Another blog post, another novel. It's not that I've been devouring fiction more than usual, more a failure to blog that brings this...
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Saturday, July 02, 2011

Emma Donoghue's Room

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I've always had a difficulty with books entirely written in a voice with which I'm uneasy. I never managed, for example, to read The...
Tuesday, May 03, 2011

One for the flight bag

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I finished reading Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace just before the busyness of Holy Week began, and now wish I'd saved it for a holid...
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Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Enjoying an old 'tec

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In keeping with my current preoccupation , I've dipped back into my childhood years again with this excellent Penguin Classic, The Tiger...
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Sunday, January 02, 2011

Kate Atkinson, again

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Just before the Christmas holiday (and yes, retired people can have them, when they give up cooking and visit their families and abdicate re...
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