I know, I know… another post about books but I’m really behind with my books posts so you might get more in the next few days. Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin. This was given to me by my sister in law who’s a primary school teacher and I wasn’t sure at all about it … …
The Road by Cormac Mc Carthy Time is a funny thing. If you’d asked me about this book before last week I’d have told you that the my first attempt at reading it was during college… but that is not possible because when I looked into it was published 11 years after I graduated. Weird, …
The colour purple by Alice Walker. Published in 1982, it won the Pulitzer Price for Fiction in 1983. It is such a well known and famous book I’m not going to sit here and critique it… it would be ridiculous, I’m just kind of ashamed it took me so long to read it, although to …
White Tiger by Arvind Adiga I’ve been sitting in front of the computer for a while and I don’t really know what to say about this book. Let me begin by saying that I ‘enjoyed’ reading it, it’s well written, it flows, it’s funny, it keeps you engaged… until you stop and realise that you …
Emmeline (by Judith Rossiter) A laugh a minute it ain’t, but I really enjoyed reading it. The story is a fictionalized account of the life of Emeline Bachelder Gurney. Both anecdotal and documented evidence have been found about Gurney’s life. Emmeline is 13 and when her farming family in Maine falls into hard times she is …
Like Water to Chocolate (Laura Esquivel) First things first… don’t you hate when they publish book with a movie tie-in cover? I do. Normally I wouldn’t buy a book like in that edition, but I had always wanted to read this one and I knew that if I let it pass me …
The bloody chamber by Angela Carter. One of the best thing to come out of this 48 years of books experiment has been the discovery of new writers thanks to a bit of gambling on my behalf and people’s recommendations. It goes without saying that occasionally this approach can backfire. Case in point my latest …
‘Heartburn’ by Nora Ephron. Two things, actually no, three things made me buy this book. Reason non 1: the cover… I know, I know, the old adagio still stand, don’t judge a book by its cover… but sometimes I do, we all do. We judge people and fruit and shoes by the way they look, …
Oranges are not the only fruit (Jeanette Winterson). I really don’t know what to say about this book. The short of it is that it is an autobiographical telling of the author adolescence in a strict working class, Pentecostal family in the Midlands and her personal relationship with God whilst coming to term with her …
Let the great world spin by Calum McCann. I loved this book. In fact, I might go as far as saying that it shot straight into my top ten ever favourite books in the company of ‘the narrow road to the deep North’ by Richard Flanagan and ‘all the light we cannot see’ by Anthony …
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