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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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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0375 | For the Term of His Natural Life | Marcus Clarke
Context: Started selling off stuff in preparation for moving out. Someone bought the house we’re renting. Ah well, it was nice while it lasted… REVIEW This was an unexpected page-turner….
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0367 | Mrs Dalloway | Virginia Woolf
Context: We wandered down to the beach a number of times to watch the sun set over the volcanoes of Rabaul while I was reading this. REVIEW My sixth Woolf…
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0360 | The Bell | Iris Murdoch
Context: Mrs Arukiyomi started looking after the lovely Tikvah a couple of days a week while I was reading this. REVIEW A long while ago, I read Under the Net…
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0357 | Theresa Raquin | Emile Zola
Context: Developed a terrible infection from a mosquito bite on my left leg while I finished this off. Doesn’t look much but it took a week in bed to get…
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0352 | The Master of Petersburg | J. M. Coetzee
Context: Took my laptop to pieces to give it a clean while I read this. This included removing all the keys off the keyboard. It was disgusting under there! REVIEW…
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0346 | Youth | J. M. Coetzee
Context: Hosted an event where we projected a film on a sheet we rigged up on the wall of the living room while I read this. REVIEW Another great novel(la)…
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0344 | Searching for God Knows What | Donald Miller
Context: The morning I finished this, a friend came over and we went and played a round of frisbee golf. REVIEW Reading Blue Like Jazz, earlier this year was something…
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0343 | Out of Africa | Isak Dinesen
Context: Poor old Mrs Arukiyomi had to have 5 stitches in her finger while I was reading this. REVIEW Fiiiiinally read this. I say that because, when I was a…
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0339 | Jacob’s Room | Virginia Woolf
Context: Attended a Cultural Self-Discovery Workshop while I read this… fascinating… both the book and the workshop! REVIEW Boy this woman can write. With every book that I pick up…
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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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0324 | Codependent No More | Melody Beattie
Context: Finished this off as we moved from our old place to this new place… much nicer… same rent! REVIEW While I was back in the UK for a few…
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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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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…