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Jumping into bed with Moll
Posted on 11:00am Monday 24th November 2008
THE last time I attempted to read Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe I was about 14 - and gave up after the first 30 pages.
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The Butcher Boy: A brutally good read
Posted on 7:40pm Wednesday 19th November 2008
Well, there you go. As predicted, I've done largely little for the past day or so except read. Now I feel a bit shell-shocked, but I suspect The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe has that effect on most people who read it.
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Balancing up a good read
Posted on 1:50pm Tuesday 18th November 2008
Does anyone else have reading phases and non-reading phases? Having spent the past couple of months so addicted to reading I've been carrying a novel around with me at all times - just in case the conversation lapses and I get the chance to pound through a few paragraphs - I've hit a dry patch.
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The Understudy by David Nicholls
Posted on 12:40pm Thursday 13th November 2008
SHAKESPEARE once wrote that "all the world's a stage, and the men and women merely players".
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A trip down memory lane
Posted on 9:50am Thursday 6th November 2008
ONE of my fondest childhood memories is the numerous, and frequent, trips I took to the town's library.
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The Woman Who Walked Into Doors by Roddy Doyle
Posted on 6:20pm Tuesday 4th November 2008
It's the wrong time of year, really, for a book about poverty, violence and alcoholism set on a Dublin housing estate.
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Not quite as aromatic
Posted on 10:10am Tuesday 4th November 2008
ONE of my summer holiday reads this year was Perfume by Patrick Suskind - and as I was visiting the French town of Grasse, where a large proportion of the book is set, it seemed like the perfect choice.
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Good Behaviour but not a good experience
Posted on 10:06pm Sunday 2nd November 2008
Well, just as some books change your life and others take over your life while you're reading them, others just pass you by.
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Not such a good beginning, granted
Posted on 8:20pm Wednesday 22nd October 2008
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a good blog, like a good book, should have a good beginning.
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