0357 | Theresa Raquin | Emile Zola
Context: Developed a terrible infection from a mosquito bite on my left leg while I finished this off. Doesn’t look much but it took a week in bed to get…
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0356 | The Rainbow | D.H. Lawrence
Context: Listened to this as we used various dugout canoes to travel down the lower reaches of the Watut River in PNG on a language survey. REVIEW As I listened…
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0355 | Rites of Passage | William Golding
Context: Saw the most amazing sunset on a language survey in Tsiletsile (aka Bencheng) while reading this. Why was it amazing? Well, this is the view looking East! REVIEW William…
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0354 | The Spy Who Came in From the Cold | John Le Carré
Context: Finished this off as we headed back to the Markham valley in a dugout canoe on our Silisili Survey. REVIEW I’ve read a few of Le Carré’s novels before…
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0353 | The Vicar of Wakefield | Oliver Goldsmith
Context: Listened to this on a 14-hour hike from hell through some of the steepest mountains I’ve yet seen in Papua New Guinea. REVIEW If you’re looking for a sentimental…
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0352 | The Master of Petersburg | J. M. Coetzee
Context: Took my laptop to pieces to give it a clean while I read this. This included removing all the keys off the keyboard. It was disgusting under there! REVIEW…
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0351 | Birdsong | Sebastian Faulks
Context: Was reading this while I visited the war memorial in Port Moresby. So many who died even after WW2 had officially ended… REVIEW Heard a lot about this before…
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0350 | Dr Faustus | Thomas Mann
Context: As I was finishing this, a huge box of Christmas goodies was on its way to us from friends in Korea. Thanks guys! REVIEW Another constipation-inducing Thomas Mann digested….
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0349 | In a Free State | V. S. Naipaul
Context: Was reading this when I visited the National Orchid Garden of PNG outside Port Moresby. Amazing variety of the weirdest-looking flowers I’ve ever seen. REVIEW I don’t think I’ve…
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0348 | The Elegance of the Hedgehog | Muriel Barbery
Context: Found this at a friend’s house as I visited Port Moresby and enjoyed the pool after work each day. REVIEW This book sits right at the top of the…
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0347 | A Handful of Dust | Evelyn Waugh
Context: Was reading this from the front seat as we came in to land at Jackson Field, Port Moresby’s airport. REVIEW My, my, what a sad novel. At the start…
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0346 | Youth | J. M. Coetzee
Context: Hosted an event where we projected a film on a sheet we rigged up on the wall of the living room while I read this. REVIEW Another great novel(la)…
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0345 | The Maltese Falcon | Dashiell Hammett
Context: Was reading this on the balcony and a huge moth had decided to take up residence on our tablecloth. REVIEW As far as US detective novels that I’ve read…
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0342 | The Return of the Soldier | Rebecca West
Context: Our acoustic band had its debut as I was reading this. Great to be playing live music again! REVIEW Wow, where did this come from? Never heard of Rebecca…
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0339 | Jacob’s Room | Virginia Woolf
Context: Attended a Cultural Self-Discovery Workshop while I read this… fascinating… both the book and the workshop! REVIEW Boy this woman can write. With every book that I pick up…
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0338 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Victor Hugo
Context: Got myself a brand new crash helmet sent over from the US while I was reading this one. REVIEW Oh this was so much better than the mauling Disney…
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0337 | The Gathering | Anne Enright
Context: Finished burning off our piles of old paperwork as I finished reading this. REVIEW Right off the bat I’ll say that this is one of the most disappointing Booker…
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0335 | Oroonoko | Aphra Behn
Context: Began the mammoth task of scanning all our unscanned office documentation while reading this. REVIEW This is a short story about a king abducted from his tribe in Surinam…