Book Club
Saturday, August 20th, 2011
The English Patient ‘If I gave you my life, you would drop it. Wouldn’t you?’ Set in post-war Italy, The English Patient focuses on four survivors coming to terms with the devastating effects of war, with each other, and with themselves – Hana, a nurse, whose love for the charred ‘Englishman’ in her care shifts [...]
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Friday, August 19th, 2011
She might yet be able to help him to the building of the rainbow bridge that should connect the prose in us with the passion. Without it we are meaningless fragments, half monks, half beasts, unconnected arches that have never joined into a man. With it love is born, and alights on the highest curve, [...]
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Friday, August 19th, 2011
One Good Turn is the second novel in which Kate Atkinson featured her private detective, Jackson Brodie. Brodie is attractive, compassionate and flawed. Appealing of course, with the added attraction that he loves dogs! This novel is subtitled, ‘A jolly murder mystery’, a subtitle oddly at odds( seemingly) with the rather violent epsiodes glancingly featured in this [...]
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Saturday, August 13th, 2011
Yesterday I was fascinated by a pest controller telling me about cockroaches and their two brains. I do think Dr Who should maximise upon this enthralling fact! Today, I picked up Michael Morpurgo’s latest paperback, An Elephant in the Garden and decided to read it as a diversion from my latest Kate Atkinson obsession…and it [...]
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Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Daphne Du Maurier – “The Old Man” Being unfamiliar with Du Maurier’s work, I didn’t know what to expect from this short story, and, having scanned the contents page of The Birds collection, was intrigued to find how its shortest story (11 pages in my edition), could capture and suspend the reader’s imagination in such [...]
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Monday, August 8th, 2011
Daphne Du Maurier – “The Birds” “There were robins, finches, sparrows, blue tits, larks and bramblings, birds that by nature’s law kept to their own flock and their own territory, and now, joining one with another in their urge for battle, had destroyed themselves”. It is precisely this breaking of nature’s laws, this inexplicable transgression [...]
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Saturday, August 6th, 2011
Sometimes days become more fluid than chocolate milkshake! The other week I had the Emily Dickinson phrase, ‘started early, took my dog’ in my head in connection with the latest Kate Atkinson I had not read. So I abandoned my normal shopping habits, went to Tesco and came home with Jackson Brodie’s best outing I [...]
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Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
Sarah Waters’ novel The Nightwatch is dramatised tonight. I must confess I started the novel when it was first published and then abandoned the experience, disappointed by the careful restraint and austerity of setting and character. Waters was brave enough to challenge herself to explore this new historical setting after the highly successful Victorian settings [...]
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
AND then, after six years, she saw him again. He was seated at one of those little bamboo tables decorated with a Japanese vase of paper daffodils. There was a tall plate of fruit in front of him, and very carefully, in a way she recognized immediately as his “special” way, he was peeling an [...]
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
There was poor little Lottie, left behind again, because she found it so fearfully hard to get over the stile by herself. When she stood on the first step her knees began to wobble; she grasped the post. Then you had to put one leg over. But which leg? She never could decide. And when [...]
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