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Vicki Last Night at Chateau Marmot by Lauren Weisberger – I love my trashy nightime reading – this month it was the latest by The Devil Wears Prada author. Not as great as some of her other novels but still worth the read. It doesn’t end up as I predicted : http://www.laurenweisberger.com/ The Sense of [...]
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So Library peeps, what have you been reading to keep your heads above all this water? Heidi (I had a week and a half in bed this month so read my self silly) Pure by Andrew Miller – it so happened I finished this book just as it was announced as the winner of the Costa Book [...]
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So what ‘Amazing Reads’ * have Library staff had in the past month? Heidi I finished The Kingdom by the Sea by Paul Theroux – I dipped into it over a few months. I got it after it was referenced several times by Bill Bryson in Notes From a Small Island which I have loved [...]
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Alison A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman by Margaret Drabble, best known as a novelist. This is a collection of her short stories. Loved them. Nice observations of human nature. Five Bells by Australian writer Gail Jones. I enjoy novels set in Sydney, you’ll recognise lots of the places she talks about. [...]
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Naomi The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker – I think this might be a new favourite author – with an amazingly sharp wit, transformative moments of stream-of-consciousness and insight into the human condition. This book is narrated by a hapless poet with writer’s block, and explores the poetic beauty (and comedy) he finds in his everyday [...]
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ADAM The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson – very interesting read if you are interested in how the brain functions or what makes people tick. I like his gonzo style of journalism, and while I didn’t find this as fascinating as The men who stare at goats it was full of interviews with intriguing people. [...]
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Here’s what we’ve been reading over the last month : Heidi I’m currently trying madly to avoid To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, suggested by some sadist in my book group. It’s the second Woolf I’ve tried. I’m not a fan of stream of consciousness stuff and long sentences that ramble on so that I’ve forgotten [...]
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Heidi Took longer over by Andrea Levy’s The Long Song than I’d anticipated – get over the 1/3rd hump and it all gets better. Distracted by Giving Up the Ghost, Hilary Mantel’s autobiography. Now have to face The Finkler Question for book group. Roslyn Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky – had some beautiful descriptive prose, however I [...]
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Melanie Apart from The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (which I haven’t finished) I’m rereading Lord of the Rings. Bit of a frost, sorry. Colleen Love, Honour and O’Brien by Jennifer Rowe (also went to a talk by Jennifer Rowe about this book) Little Coffee Shop of Kabul byDeborah Rodriguez Never let Me Go by Kazuo [...]
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Ros Disgrace by J M Coetzee ~ This was a dark read dealing with among other themes, Aparthied issues in South Africa. The subject content wasn’t by any means pleasant, but it was thought provoking and well written and was a Booker prize winner. Currently I’m reading This body of death by Elizabeth George for a [...]
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