0332 | The Fox | D.H. Lawrence
Context: Starting a run of exhausting rehearsals for Cinderella. And, before you ask, no, I’m not an ugly sister. REVIEW Haven’t read any Lawrence for quite a while. Actually, not…
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0331 | Melmoth the Wanderer | Charles Robert Maturin
Context: Our gardener planted a ton of corn for us while I was reading this. It came up in hours, not days… not really but it seemed like it. REVIEW…
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0330 | The Nose | Nikolai Gogol
Context: We got the first of what looks to be many bunches of bananas off our banana trees while I was reading this. REVIEW Brilliant. What an idea! Someone’s nose…
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0329 | The Purloined Letter | Edgar Allen Poe
Context: As I finished this, my transfer went through to purchase my second ever motorbike, a 200cc Yamaha REVIEW Better be careful here or my review might actually be longer…
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0328 | Under the Volcano | Malcolm Lowry
Context: As I was struggling to reach the end of this, I finally got myself a practice amp for my guitar. REVIEW When I bought this in second hand bookshop…
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0326 | On Beauty | Zadie Smith
Context: Started reading this as I prepared to go on a 320km bike ride through Western Province, PNG. REVIEW Definitely enjoyed this more than White Teeth and this is an…
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0325 | The Way of All Flesh | Samuel Butler
Context: Finished this on my e-book reader as I cycled 320km around the far southwest of PNG on a survey of the communities of the Tonda Sub-Family of languages. REVIEW…
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0323 | Moll Flanders | Daniel Defoe
Context: Finished this as the wife and I read by the first fire we made in our new house. REVIEW This is a quite remarkable novel for its time and…
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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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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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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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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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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…