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Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë

Book #902 Today’s book has the privilege of being a first for this blog – two reviews at the same time!  Many thanks to Ange P and Sweetp for the dual review. Reviewer: Ange P Warning 1: probably not a...

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Disappearance – David Dabydeen

Book #131 Reviewer: Beth, of Beth’s List Love Work, work, work, that’s the doom of your people isn’t it? Isn’t that why the English shipped millions of you over to the Caribbean? So how come you don’t...

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Unless – Carol Shields

Book #27 Reviewer: Inspirationalreads I too am aware of being in incestuous waters, a woman writer who is writing about a woman writer who is writing …  We may pretend otherwise, but to many writers...

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Love Medicine – Louise Erdrich

Book #222a Reviewer: Kara Love Medicine, by Louise Erdrich, is a book of short stories, but looking at them as a novel shows that the book is much bigger than the sum of its parts. This is a group of...

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A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch

Book #446 Reviewer: Inspirationalreads Martin Gibbon-Lynch is a 4o-ish wine seller, who is married to ageing beauty Antonia.  While not entirely overjoyed in the marriage, Martin is content and assumes...

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The Plague – Albert Camus

Book #559 Reviewer: Inspirationalreads Oran is a small town like any other; populated by people who seem to be engaged in a busy nothingness.  Happy in their everyday life, not overly spectacular in...

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Perfume:The Story of a Murderer – Patrick Süskind

Book #243 Reviewer: Sweetp Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a book I’ve had on my ‘to-read’ list for some time. I started reading it with some trepidation since horror isn’t my usual genre of...

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Legend – David Gemmell

Book #248 Reviewer: Inspirationalreads Aaaaaahhhhh.  That is the sound of me settling into one of my favourite genres, a first for my reads for this blog.  Fantasy, my first and if I am honest,...

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Farewell, My Lovely – Raymond Chandler

Book #586 Reviewer: Beth’s List Love (first published January 2013) It was a warm day, almost the end of March, and I stood outside the barbershop looking up at the jutting neon sign of a second floor...

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The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

Book #254 Reviewer: Inspirationalreads Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I’d disposed of Blyth, and then a year...

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Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro

Book #1 Reviewer: Inspirationalreads So I want to start out by saying that I am going to be deliberately vague about the finer points of this novel.  Like others on this list, I have avoided any kind...

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The Body Artist – Don DeLillo

Book #45 Reviewer: Inspirationalreads Lauren Hartke is the body artist of the title.  A performance artist, she is married to film maker Rey Robles who shortly after we are introduced to him, drives to...

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The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison

Book #365 Reviewer: Inspirationalreads There is a commonly held belief that a reader will live a thousand lives in a space of one lifetime.  Sometimes those lives are fun, sometimes morbidly...

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Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami

Book #78 Reviewer: Angelo Please welcome our newest reviewer Angelo.  We haven’t had a new addition to the team in a while and we look forward to many more insightful reviews. “No man should go through...

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Animal Farm – George Orwell

Book #564 Reviewer: Inspirationalreads There are not many unfamiliar (well, many readers) with this allegorical tale of farm animals rising up to overthrow their human owner and install a new regime in...

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The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway

Book #521 Reviewer: Inspirationalreads I have long associated Hemingway as being the most masculine of writers.  I was aware of him being a keen hunter and the titles of his books, in particular A...

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Women in Love – D. H. Lawrence

Book #728 Reviewer: Lizzie C Another first time reviewer here on the blog – welcome along Lizzie. C! Before I begin it has been years since I have sat down and written any kind of book review so...

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Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M Coetzee

Book #287 Reviewer: Inspirationalreads With an impressive ten books on the list, this is surprisingly the first Coetzee to be reviewed on this site.  A Nobel Prize winner and two-time Booker prize...

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Quote of the Week

For our most recent literary loss.   “Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules of Writing 1. Never open a book with weather. 2. Avoid prologues. 3. Never use a verb other than “said” to carry dialogue. 4. Never use...

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But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. Jane Austen Filed under: The Editors Tagged: Quotes

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