0286 | The Bookseller of Kabul – Åsne Seierstad
Context: Read this as we continued to cross off days on our calendar during 34 days in the village in PNG. REVIEW This as not what I was expecting. I…
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0285 | Search for Salvation–John G. Strelan
Context:I read this just days before I came across a cargo cult that it described in the village of Male in Papua New Guinea. REVIEW I would have passed this…
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0284 | The Handmaid’s Tale–Margaret Atwood
Context: Read this while we hosted many villagers on our large veranda in PNG. REVIEW I’ve read a number of Atwoods but nothing comes close to this. Somehow she’s managed…
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0283 | In Search of the Source – Neil Anderson
Context: Our source while living in the village was a tarp we rigged at the back of our house to catch rainwater. REVIEW Heard a lot about this book, especially…
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0282 | Death, Witchcraft and the Spirit World in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea – Neville Bartle
Context: the first of many books I read by kerosene lamp while living in a house in a village in Papua New Guinea. REVIEW Forgive me for not posting too…
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0281 | The Pearl – John Steinbeck
Context: Finished this off the day we decorated the meeting house with palms and said thanks to our wasfamilis. REVIEW Steinbeck hasn’t written anything that I haven’t enjoyed in some…
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0280 | Kim – Rudyard Kipling
Context: Finished this off in the midst of packing for five weeks living in a village in Papua New Guinea. REVIEW This took a lot of getting through. Thankfully I’d…
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0279 | The Return of the Native –Thomas Hardy
Context: Listened to this over weeks while travelling through Korea, Japan and Australia to emigrate to Papua New Guinea. REVIEW Some Hardy I like. Others I do not. This fell…
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0278 | A Dry White Season – Andre Brink
Context: Finished this the weekend we started cooking our own food in shelters we’d built ourselves called haus kuks. REVIEW Seems to be a season of South Africa! Following…
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0277 | Letub – Rudolf Inselmann
Context: Finished this off on the back of the Dyna on the way into Madang. REVIEW I picked this up off the shelf in the office at the orientation course…
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0276 | The Life & Times of Michael K – J. M. Coetzee
Context: Finished this book off and read most of it under the haus win shelter at Nobnob in Madang, PNG. REVIEW This is a curious little book about a man…
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0275 | A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
Context: Finished this off on Trinity Beach just north of Cairns which is mentioned often in this novel. REVIEW A very, very long time ago, I was a teenage boy….
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0274 | The Day of the Dolphin – Robert Merle
Context: Read this as we took our first flight on the double-decker A380 from Dubai to Seoul. Very nice. REVIEW Never heard of this until, scanning my copy of the…
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0273 | On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan
Context: Read this while we were meeting the church staff for lunch at our immense church in Seoul, South Korea. REVIEW This is the most amazing book. It’s the fourth…
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0272 | The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai
Context: Packing our final bags for emigrating to Papua New Guinea REVIEW This is a moving portrayal of life in India shortly after the reign of Indira Ghandi when, in…
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0271 | Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
Context: Read this as we cleared out our stuff from our lovely flat in Bar Hill. REVIEW Heard a lot about this novel and watched most of the film with…
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0270 | Sula – Toni Morrison
Context: Read this while waiting for the Newcastle CLC church to start at the Life Centre. REVIEW Another offering from Morrison to compare with Beloved and Jazz. To be honest,…
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0269 | In Europe – Geert Mak
Context: Finally finished this off at our friends’ lovely house in Beamish, County Durham. REVIEW This was an amazing book and I can’t think why it isn’t better known. For…