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No tea on the lawn for EM Forster's Maurice
Posted on 10:40am Saturday 9th May 2009
I WENT on a walk the other day with my sister (who's still nagging me about Adam Bede).
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Tell us your best summer reads
Posted on 7:20am Monday 4th May 2009
LITTLE darling... it's been a long, cold lonely winter, doo-doo-de-dooh. Yep, the snow of February feels like years ago now and summer is on its way and rumour has it it's going to be a good one. So tell us your perfect summer reads...
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An almost novel by Alice Sebold
Posted on 10:39am Sunday 3rd May 2009
THE Almost Moon by Alice Sebold (of The Lovely Bones fame) tells the story of a middle-aged woman who kills her ageing mother, no longer able to cope with her dementia.
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100 magical years of solitude, love, death and betrayal
Posted on 10:12am Tuesday 7th April 2009
IF you’re going to read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ One Hundred Years of Solitude, I recommend you set aside a week of solitude for the pleasure.
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Touching The Void
Posted on 5:44pm Thursday 26th March 2009
It feels so good to have finally finished a book!
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A chilly tale
Posted on 4:49pm Thursday 19th March 2009
OKAY, so I've been going through one of my non-reading phases over the last couple of weeks, hence the lack of posts on here.
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George keeps distracting me from Adam
Posted on 4:47pm Thursday 5th February 2009
I feel slightly guilty and slightly ashamed. At least two years ago now, my sister told me the hero to beat all heroes in literature was Adam Bede - and she lent me her lovingly thumbed edition and made me swear not to damage it.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Posted on 7:10am Monday 19th January 2009
SOMEHOW I managed to avoid reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles while I was at school. It also never came up on a reading list while I was studying A-level English Literature.
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Trudging...but in a good way
Posted on 3:31pm Tuesday 13th January 2009
IT'S taken me a few days but I've finally decided what book I am going to sit down and read next.
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Blind Faith and Black Dogs
Posted on 5:55pm Saturday 3rd January 2009
WELL my passion for an early night with a good book has taken a bit of a knock over the festive period - and not, as you'd expect, because of the late-night frivolity and boozing.
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The trials and tribulations of Book Worm
Posted on 5:04pm Tuesday 9th December 2008
AFTER a small distraction in the shape of Black Dogs I finally decided that it was time to grab Moll by her corset strings and discover whether she lives happily ever after or if she rotted in Newgate.
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Handbags, bagpipes and Moll
Posted on 6:12pm Sunday 30th November 2008
Oh dear. Even Moll with her winsome ways doesn't always manage to keep a hold over her audience and so, alas, I must admit - I have strayed.
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