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REVIEW: The Optimist’s Daughter
Having cheated slightly and read a couple of children’s books this week (Stairway to Doom by Robert Quackenbush and Michael Rosen’s A to Z of children’s poetry by various authors), I decided to tackle something a little more heavyweight and chose 1973 Pulitzer Prize-winning The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty. This book was first published…
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REVIEW: Daughters of the House
Daughters of the House is written by Michele Roberts and published in paperback in 1993. It was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize and won the WH Smith Literary Award the same year. I had not read it before but I am on a bit of a mission to read as many Booker Prize shortlisted…
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REVIEW: The Pachinko Parlour
Here it is, my first read of the year – The Pachinko Parlour written by Elisa Shua Dusapin, translated from the original French by Aneesa Abbas Higgins and published in English in 2022. It’s a compact novel, running to 171 pages and so was a quick read for my first of 2023. Elisa Shua Dusapin…
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2023 reading goals
Happy New Year. May 2023 bring you health and happiness and lots and lots of new reading matter. It’s New Year’s Day and so I’m considering my reading goals for the next 12 months. As I mentioned the other day, I was extremely lucky to receive a literary abundance for Christmas ( here’s the link)…
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A very merry Christmas for this booklover
It’s that time between Christmas and New Year when no-one knows what day of the week it is and I start itching to take the decorations down and get everything back to normal. I hope everyone had a fabulous Christmas and was well and truly spoilt – well as much as the fiscal climate allows.…
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REVIEW: Snap
Oops, I’ve got my thumb over the author’s name in the photo. This rip-rollicking read is Snap by Belinda Bauer. It was a recommendation picked up from the BBC 2 television programme Between the Covers. And it is great. You might be able to see in that hideous yellow circle on the cover (I really…
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