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Friday, 11 July 2008 |
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Boy, by James Hanley July 11th, 2008 I like to keep myself in the dark about books before reading them: in this case all I knew was that it had been published first in 1931, and then later banned - I had no idea why. So this was, in part, how I came to read the novel, wondering all the while what it was that had so upset that 1930s morality (though only, as it happened, after the work had been readily available for four years). - Well, as I read along, there were certainly candidates: the phy
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Thursday, 10 July 2008 |
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A delightfully lowbrow novel about living and loving in London. Paul Burke writes with a great deal of irreverant affection for the city he lives in.
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Burkes witty and lighthearted novel talks about two individuals voiceover artist Sean Reilly, an Irishman replete with the luck of the Irish, and journalist turned politician Lucy Ross (or Lucia Rossi), a second generation Italian immigrant who hates politics and loves shopping.
Sean Reilly is currently estranged with his wife, not because of lack of affection, but rather because of lack of expression of that affection. The wife moves to Kent, the husband stays back in his beloved London, gets a smart new flat in Soho and drives down to Kent on weekends to be with his two daughters.
Lucy Ross stands for Chelmsford MP elections as part of her research for a magazine article, and wins by default. Her boyfriend Adam is less than supportive about her new career and they break up.
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 |
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Its an all too familiar situation that an Agent will encounter: The Journeyman. Paul Shirley is not a household name, yet he has played for multiple NBA teamsalbeit, if its in junk time as he calls it. The 610 Kansas native gives readers an insight into what its like to be the fringe player plying the basketball trade around the world. In Can I Keep My Jersey?: 11 Teams, 5 Countries, and 4 years in my life as a Basketball Vagabond, Paul takes us into the world of a basketball player w
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Monday, 07 July 2008 |
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I've read two other P.T. Deutermann novels and liked them and was glad to find that I was not disappointed in the two I read this week. This is part of a series that features Lt. Cam Richter, a Lt. in the Manceford County Sheriff's Office in North Carolina. The book open with a man dangling down a cliff fact trying to get a close up picture of a mountain lion in her den, at great personal risk. It then goes to a robbery of a mini mart in which two bad guys kill the owner as well as a soccer mo
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Sunday, 06 July 2008 |
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Mark Haddon
A Spot of Bother
Vintage, 2007 edition
501 pages
Mark Haddon already convinced me of his ability to empathize with his main characters when I had started reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, where the author manages to look through the eyes of a 15 year-old boy with autism in such a way, it was obvious that he understood his character completely.
In A Spot of Bother, which centers around a chaotic family, Haddon continues on this level of solid character building.
George has a lot on his plate. He has just retired, his daughter Katie is getting married to someone other than the father of her child, his wife Judy has been cheating on him (which he doesn't know) and is thinking about leaving... and his son Jamie is struggling with being an out in the open and committed gay man.
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