Tag: Book Review
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Obernewtyn – Isobelle Carmody
“Sometimes I am afraid for people like you who have to know things. Your kind will dig and hunt and worry at it until one day you will find what is hidden, waiting for you.” Date Completed: 256 Page Length: September 12 2017 Goodreads I house sat for my aunt and uncle the other weekend. […]
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
“A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.’ Date Completed: August 13 2017 Page Length: 320 Goodreads The Unbearable Lightness of Being was, for me, one of those books that you’ve heard of but don’t know anything about. Someone had probably mentioned it at uni, and I know a […]
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American Gods – Neil Gaiman
“People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine and people believe: and it is that belief, that rock-solid belief, that makes things happen.” Date Completed: June 18 2017 Page Length: 635 Goodreads If you’ve been following my Letters From the Road you’ll know I’ve been reading Neil Gaiman’s American Gods […]
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The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography – Edmund Gordon
Date Completed: Early January 2017 Page Length: 544 Goodreads Rather than begin this review with a quote, I will simply say, read the whole damn thing. My mum gave me Edmund Gordon’s biography of Angela Carter fro Christmas last year and read it almost non stop until completing it in early January. I was slowed down considerably […]
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The Girl Most Likely – Rebecca Sparrow
“I choose a table that is partly in the sun. And as I sit here I realise that I’m happy.” Date Completed: June 22 2016 Page Length: 284 Goodreads I started reading this book way back in 2011. For whatever reason I stopped after a couple chapters and only picked it up again last week. I couldn’t tell […]
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The Eye of the Sheep – Sofie Laguna
“He came close, bent down, put his arms around me and he cried and so did I, so did I, and I knew where crying was made; it was made in me.” Date Completed: May 3 2016 Page Length: 308 Goodreads This book was compelling. I think that’s the best way to describe it. It’s a page […]
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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs
“One day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn’t become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered.” Date Completed: April 29 2016 Page Length: 352 Goodreads *Spoilers may lie ahead* As Tim Burton’s next blockbuster slated for release in September this year it’s hard to read Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar […]
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The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.” Date Completed: February 5 2016 Page Length: 98 Goodreads This book is a treasure, a gift from author to reader which I didn’t recognise as such until I reached its end. A friend of mine recommend The Little […]
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The Heart Goes Last – Margaret Atwood
“Oblivion is increasingly attractive to the young, and even to the middle-aged, since why retain your brain when no amount of thinking can even begin to solve the problem?” Date Completed: January 20 2016 Page Length: 308 Goodreads The quote I chose for this post didn’t jump out at me when reading The Heart Goes Last however, on rereading […]
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The Natural Way of Things – Charlotte Wood
“In the days to come she will learn what she is, what they all are.” Date Completed: December 10 2015 Page Length: 320 Goodreads Continuing in a tradition of dystopian feminist texts, which includes Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Charlotte Wood’s The Natural Way of Things has turned a lot of heads. Already nominated for the 2016 Victorian […]