0304 | Free Air – Sinclair Lewis
Context: Another novel I listened to as I cut grass in our garden. REVIEW Ok… I’ll admit it, I was duped. I thought this was on the 1001 books list…
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0303 | The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
Context: Read this on my e-reader while walking to and from work. First book I’ve read on my 5 min commute. REVIEW Wow. What a book! And not just because…
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302 | The Island of Dr. Moreau | H.G. Wells
Context: Finished this over a plate of beans one lunchtime. REVIEW Wells was a genius who was way ahead of his time in being able to grasp some of the…
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0301 | Wewak Mission – Lionel Veale
Context: While reading this our gutters were so blocked up with pine needles that I had to remove all the downpipes and flush them out with a hose. REVIEW One…
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0300 | The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context: Started and finished this in the garden as I’ve taken to 30 mins a day pottering around there ridding my body of office toxins. REVIEW The first audio book…
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0299 | Botchan – Natsume Soseki
Context: While I was reading this, a friend who was going away lent me her little runaround. Didn’t run around on it much though. REVIEW Lived in Japan for years…
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0298 | 200 Shots – Neil McDonald & Peter Brune
Context: First book I finished off in my new comfy chair, one of our first buys in Ukarumpa. REVIEW A friend here at Ukarumpa lent me this and a couple…
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0297 | Super Cannes – J. G. Ballard
Context: Started reading this on the gorgeous Thorntons Beach just south of Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia. Seems like a million years ago now! REVIEW This was quite a strange chilling…
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0296 | One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
Context: This was the first book I finished in our new home in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. REVIEW Long ago, I saw the film of this book and…
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0295 | Too Late the Phalarope – Alan Paton
Context: started packing for our final move of these nearly three years (we hope) up to Ukarumpa in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. REVIEW Paton’s Cry, the…
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0294 | The Family Frying Pan – Bryce Courtenay
Context: Read this in one sitting on a day when I really couldn’t face any more interaction with villagers in Male! REVIEW I’m usually wary of any book where the…
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0293 | The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
Context: The local equivalent of a bell in the village where I read this is a garamut, a wooden drum as pictured. REVIEW I’m not really one for whodunnits, mysteries…
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0292 | The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
Context: The liklik haus or outhouse where I began reading this book in Male. REVIEW Read a number of Stevenson’s works (I’ve reviewed Treasure Island and Jekyll & Hyde on…
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0291 | Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
Context: Read this each night as I lay down to sleep under our mosquito net in the village. REVIEW What a beautiful book to have read in a place so…
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0290 | The Plague – Albert Camus
Context: Read this while we screened the Jesus Film on a generator at the Foursquare Church in Male, PNG. REVIEW It seems entirely appropriate that I should finish this book…
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0289 | Outrageous Grace–Grace Fabian
Context: Wandered through the River Kior a number of times while reading this. REVIEW Subtitled “A Story of Tragedy and Forgiveness” this is about the lives of Grace and her…
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0288 | Before All Else Fails… Read the Instructions–Kevin G. Hovey
Context: While reading this, I twice took this road north from Male to attend cargo cult meetings in Rereu. REVIEW Hovey’s task is to help Christians a) understand a Melanesian…
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0287 | Paddy Clark, Ha, Ha, Ha–Roddy Doyle
Context: While I read this, we did teacher training sessions for the teachers at Male Primary School. REVIEW Heard a lot about this Booker Winner (1993) but never had a…