Some summers ago while at our local village swimming pool a lady, unknown to me at the time, came up and said, ‘That book changed my life!’ ‘That book’, the one that I was reading at the pool edge, was The White Earth by Andrew McGahan and I was about half-way through. I looked upContinue reading “Books that fail to sizzle”
Category Archives: Books I’ve Read
Books that make you LOL
When was the last time that you couldn’t stop yourself from laughing out loud as you were reading a book? Come on, never! I can’t believe it. Where would we be without side-splitting humour? Stating the obvious, in a sad, sad space. It’s refreshing to ‘poke fun’ at ourselves, to take the seriousness out ofContinue reading “Books that make you LOL”
Finding yourself in a Thomas Hardy novel
I can almost feel tear drops forming ready to splash down on my keyboard as I contemplate the content of this blog. Every year our Book Group aims to cover one classic. Last year Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf gave some of our ‘clubbers’ absolute grief to read but all (well most…) agreed it wasContinue reading “Finding yourself in a Thomas Hardy novel”
Books started but not finished
‘A masterpiece’ The Age ‘An unputdownable page turner by a master storyteller’ The Weekly Times This book is almost 6 cm (2.5 inches) thick, has 933 pages and is printed in the teeniest type. You would have to put it down, often, to rest your aching arms! Described as: This remarkable book can be readContinue reading “Books started but not finished”
What makes a book good
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families,Continue reading “What makes a book good”
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