Tag: library
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Books…Beyond Number
I’ve lost count. I’ve been hitting the library – reading in and out of order, and reading a lot on the side too. Gosh I like reading. Lionel Asbo: State of England by Martin Amis Fantastic. Rough and jarring and tense. Amazing character descriptions, caricatures really. It seems all funny and exaggerated and then you […]
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Books Five and Six
Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga, which was OK. And The Girl in the Mirror by Cecelia Ahern, which was decidedly not. I knew when I picked up a bloody Cecelia Ahern that it would be pants. But this was not just pants – it was short story pants, with a bit of ‘magic’ chucked […]
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Books Four and Five
Quite honestly, the Ackroyd was a bust. It wasn’t poorly written, just oh so dull. The trouble with translating very old stories from the original French is that you end up with quite odd prose. Stiff and abrupt. I found it very tiresome indeed and didn’t enjoy it at all. On to three and four. […]
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Books Two and Three
I should have thought of this. Book two is obviously another Megan Abbott. Brilliant. I’ll read it though. I didn’t hate the cheerleaders, it was just a bit try-hard is all. So we have book two, The End of Everything, and book three, The Death of King Arthur by Peter Ackroyd. Pretty different. The first […]
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