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Tag Archives: book reviews
Sally Rooney: Up to the Hype?
I took up reading Irish literary sensation Sally Rooney to find out what the fuss was all about. After all, she’s only twenty-eight and has written two novels that have rocked the literary world, Conversations with Friends (2017) and Normal … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, booklists, books, Conversations with Friends, Irish Times, Normal Peiope, Sally Rooney, writing
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Review: Paul Collier, Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our World
Not long ago, Hillary Clinton controversially summed up Britain’s Brexit morass as essentially about immigration: “Europe needs to get a handle on migration because that is what lit the flame.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/22/hillary-clinton-europe-must-curb-immigration-stop-populists-trump-brexit A way of saying that only then can Europe … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, books, Emmigration, Exodus, immigration, indigenous, Pau; Collier, reviews, writing
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Elegy for Iris: A Review
“We can only learn to love by loving.” —Iris Murdoch I’ve just read John Bayley’s Elegy for Iris, his moving memoir of his wife, renowned British novelist Iris Murdoch—26 novels in addition to nonfiction—who succumbed to Alzheimer’s in 1999 at … Continue reading
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Tagged authors, book reviews, Elegy for Iris, Iris and her Friends, Irish Murdoch, John Bagley, writers
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On Reading Rebecca Mead’s My Life in Middlemarch
All of us have a favorite book we wouldn’t mind reading again. For me, it’s David Copperfield, simply because I identify with much of what happens in it. The same holds true for Rebecca Mead in her bibliomemoir, My Life … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, books, Coventry, George Eliot, George Lewes, literary, literature, Middlemarch, My Llfe in Middlemarch, Rebecca Mead, Victorian, Victorian novels, writing
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Oliver Sacks: Medicine’s Laureate
I find every patient I see, everywhere, vividly alive, interesting and rewarding; I have never seen a patient who didn’t teach me something new. Or stir in me new feelings and new trains of thought. –Oliver Sacks I’ve just finished … Continue reading
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Tagged Awakenings, book reviews, books, encephalitis, Oliver Sacks, On the Move, Robin Williams, Thom Gunn
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Reflections on Boyd’s Any Human Heart: Elegant Solemnity
Have just finished William Boyd’s riveting novel, Any Human Heart, nearly 500 pages long. You may remember it had appeared on PBS as an award-winning three part adaptation. That’s what led me to the novel, the fictional playback of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Any Human Heart, best books, book reviews, Boyd quotations, good reads, quotations, William Boyd
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