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Peter Carey: Parrot and Olivier in America (Faber and Faber)
Emma Donoghue: Room (Pan MacMillan – Picador)
Helen Dunmore: The Betrayal (Penguin – Fig Tree)
Damon Galgut: In a Strange Room (Grove Atlantic – Atlantic Books)
Howard Jacobson: The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury)
Andrea Levy: The Long Song (Headline Publishing Group – Headline Review)
Tom McCarthy: C (Random House [...]
It’s that time of year again, the papers are full of summer reading suggestions. Everyone and their pet budgie comes out and tells us what they’ll be reading while sunning themselves in foreign climes, whether it be chick lit or Tolstoy. Well, everyone can stop talking about it now, because I think I’ve just found [...]
July 22, 2010 in book thoughts, fiction
Tagged cevannes, fiction, france, rosy thornton, summer, the tapestry of love
Tagged cevannes, fiction, france, rosy thornton, summer, the tapestry of love
As those of you who follow me on Twitter or are friends with me on Facebook will know, I have been in hospital for a few days, which explains my latest blog absence. (Don’t worry, I’m home now and well on the mend.)
Anyway, recently kimbofo asked me to take part in her Triple Choice Tuesday [...]
Look everyone, a blog post! Sorry, time has been getting away from me recently, and something had to give. Blogging it was, unfortunately. I have been reading, albeit slowly, and I’ll be talking about two books I’ve recently finished (both Victorian novels) at a later date. Today I want to talk about E.L. Doctorow’s modern [...]
June 23, 2010 in book thoughts, fiction
Tagged american fiction, e l doctorow, fiction, new york, race, ragtime
Tagged american fiction, e l doctorow, fiction, new york, race, ragtime
Well, that all went a bit tits up for me, didn’t it?
I decided I would try to read the entire longlist by yesterday. Then my great aunt died and I lost the ability to read for three weeks, so it quickly became apparent that that wasn’t going to happen. So, I decided to aim for [...]
June 10, 2010 in book news, fiction, prizes, reading the orange prize
Tagged orange prize, the lacuna, the white woman on the green bicycle, wolf hall
Tagged orange prize, the lacuna, the white woman on the green bicycle, wolf hall
My friends will testify to the level of loathing I possess for the Twilight (Twiglet) series. I attempted the first book once, mainly just to see what the fuss was all about, and found the writing to be so brain-meltingly awful that I was overcome by an insatiable desire to stick pins in my eyes. [...]
June 3, 2010 in book thoughts, fiction, not the tv book group
Tagged fledgling, not the tv book group, octavia e butler, twilight, vampires
Tagged fledgling, not the tv book group, octavia e butler, twilight, vampires
I’m all of a fankle with my days at the moment. I was away from Friday until yesterday but now I keep thinking it’s Monday. Which accounts for the fact that Random Monday is on a Tuesday today. Sort of.
This is what happens. I go to random.org, and get a random number between 1 and [...]
June 1, 2010 in book thoughts, fiction, literature, television
Tagged bbc, big read, book of books, non-fiction
Tagged bbc, big read, book of books, non-fiction
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