0322 | The Crow Road | Iain Banks
Context: While I read this, a friend left for a few months and gave me his motorbike REVIEW The only other Ian Banks I’ve read was the utterly bizarre Wasp…
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0321 | The Art of Loving | Erich Fromm
Context: I moved desks at work while reading this and now have a corner all to myself. REVIEW This is the second in a set of three books that I…
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0320 | The Red and the Black | Stendhal
Context: Read this on my e-reader but forgot to take a pic of it in context before I deleted it! REVIEW Oh love, love, love! Just like Love in the…
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0319 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee
Context: Our gardener started a little veggie garden for us while I was reading this one. I kid you not but those beans were seeds FOUR days ago! REVIEW And…
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0318 | Last Days in New Guinea | C. A. W. Monckton
Context: Discovered this on the Rare Books shelf in the Branch Library here at Ukarumpa REVIEW A long while ago, I came across a two-volume set in a charity shop….
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0317 | The Magic Mountain | Thomas Mann
Context: Finished this the day the kitten decided to climb the fly netting and get stuck in the roof. REVIEW Boy! That took me months and I’m a pretty voracious…
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0316 | The Last Temptation | Nikos Kazantzakis
Context: Read this while we took the nephews and niece to an adventure farm in County Durham. REVIEW One of the most bizarre books I’ve read for a long time…
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0315 | Conditions of Love: the philosophy of intimacy | John Armstrong
Context: Finished this off as we ploughed through torrential rain and whiteout cloud on our flight back to the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. REVIEW I rarely read non-fiction of…
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0314 | What a Carve Up! | Jonathan Coe
Context: Read this while we visited some friends who are having a housing estate built where a school used to be over the back fence. REVIEW I haven’t enjoyed a…
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0313 | Man and Wife | Tony Parsons
Context: Finished this off in a day while me and the Mrs stayed for what could potentially be the last time with the mum-in-law at the lodge on the Norfolk…
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0312 | Remembering Babylon | David Malouf
Context: Read this as we enjoyed tea and cakes at the River Tea Rooms on the banks of the Great Ouse in St Ives, Cambridgeshire REVIEW I don’t think I’ve…
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0311 | The Crying of Lot 49 | Thomas Pynchon
Context: Bought this at a charity shop and walked onto Hartham in Hertford to sit and read it and almost immediately had company in the form of 2 swans and…
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0310 | The Death of Ivan Ilych – Leo Tolstoy
Context: Started this at the Mapang Guesthouse in Port Moresby before heading back to the UK. REVIEW This is more of a short story than even a novella, but what…
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0309 | Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ – Lew Wallace
Context: Finished this off as I waited four hours for my connecting flight to Port Moresby at Nadzab Airport just outside Lae. REVIEW All I could think about was the…
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0308 | Blue Like Jazz – Donald Miller
Context: While I read this my father-in-law was losing his struggle for life. It turned out to be the last book I finished in his lifetime. REVIEW I don’t think…
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0307 | The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
Context: Listened to this while cooking for myself when my wife returned home to attend to her sick father. REVIEW I wasn’t really sure where this book was going when…
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0306 | Jesus for President – Shane Claiborne & Chris Haw
Context: Finished this off on the day when I finished the second draft of my own book for the publishers. REVIEW I’m wondering if this book will somehow define a…
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0305 | Making ‘Black Harvest’ – Bob Connolly
Context: Blogged this the day that I took part in The Amazing Race (hence the gear) – we came 3rd out of 20 teams. REVIEW On arrival in our current…