0392 | The River Between | Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Context: Was reading this when we climbed Mt Yasur in Vanuatu and watched it belch lava into the night. REVIEW This is a very important book and a pretty good…
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0391 | Alias Grace | Margaret Atwood
Context: Was reading this as we pulled into the island of Malaita on a ferry in the Solomon Islands. REVIEW Another Atwood down. She’s quickly becoming an okay author. But…
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0390 | Main Street | Sinclair Lewis
Context: Finished this off while out on a day walking around Brisbane. New mp3 player so a new way of capturing images for the blog. REVIEW Babbitt was a book…
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0389 | Shirley | Charlotte Brontë
Context: Was reading this when we took a final walk up the hills around Ukarumpa before leaving PNG. REVIEW This completed my reading of the canon of Charlotte Brontë’s completed …
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0388 | Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel
Context: Recorded an album while I was reading this. REVIEW Now here’s a different kind of novel. Kind of. Mantel has refined her style to provide us with an intimate…
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0387 | L’Assommoir | Émile Zola
Context: Started reading this while I was staying in Kokopo, East New Britain for work. REVIEW If you want to know what life’s really like, I’m noticing that the later…
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0386 | The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle | Tobias Smollett
Context: Listened to Vol I of this on a boat from Masarau to Kokopo, East New Britain, PNG with the volcanoes of Rabaul in the distance. REVIEW I started off…
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0385 | Couples: The Truth | Kate Figes
Context: While I was reading this, Mrs Arukiyomi made her first pot in quite a while. REVIEW Figes has obviously spent a lot of time researching this lengthy book about…
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0384 | The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas
Context: Started this on my way down from Mt. Wilhelm, PNG’s highest peak. Paused at a stream to get my breath back. REVIEW This is a rollicking tale of derring-do,…
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0383 | The Children’s Book | A. S. Byatt
Context: Mrs Arukiyomi picked up a ton of great fruit at the market as I was finishing this off. REVIEW Not read any of Byatt’s work before although I have…
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0382 | That Hideous Strength | C. S. Lewis
Context: Moved into our fourth home in 2 years while I was reading this. REVIEW The final book in Lewis’ so-called space trilogy was a disappointment to me. At least…
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0381 | Evelina | Fanny Burney
Context: Listened to this as we encountered a landslide on the road to Mt Wilhelm, PNG’s highest peak (4507m)which the wife successfully climbed while I succumbed to altitude sickness at…
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0380 | Spousonomics | Paula Szuchman & Jenny Anderson
Context: Finished this off on the bed with Shiraz for company. REVIEW Get two women together. One wants to write a book about economics and the other a book about…
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0379 | New Guinea Diaries 1871-1883 | Nikolai Nikolaevich Mikloucho-Maclay
Context: Got ourselves some Action Packers in preparation for leaving PNG and carting our life back to the UK while I was reading this. REVIEW I’m nothing short of astounded…
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0378 | Teaching Cross-Culturally | Judith & Sherwood Lingenfelter
Context: Read this while at work in LCORE, Ukarumpa, PNG. My working home for the last 2 years has been the office on the right of this building. REVIEW In…
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The end of an era
Yesterday, I received an email from someone acting on behalf of Quintessence, the company that publishes the 1001 Before You Die series. The email asked us to remove both the…
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News of a new 1001 Books edition
You might have heard, you might not have, but October will see a new 2012 edition of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. Priced at £20.00 and released…
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0377 | The Sorrows of Young Werther | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Context: Messed around on one of the world’s great slip’n’slides while I was reading this. REVIEW Heard that this is one of the most accessible Goethe’s and so it made…