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davidhblog.wordpress.com
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| | | | | If I were to rank the books I've read during the lifetime of this blog (and there are over 500 of them) in order of enjoyment, Eleanor Catton's The Rehearsal(2008) would be right at the top of the list. I bought it on a whim, knowing nothing about it; I was nearly put off by... | |
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| | | | | Fiction - paperback; Faber & Faber; 208 pages; 2016. Edna O'Brien's fourth novel, August is a Wicked Month, was first published in 1965 and subsequently banned by the Irish censors for the story's sexual candour. That candour comes in the form of the book's protagonist, Ellen, a 27-year-old Irishwoman separated from her husband, who goes... | |
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| | | | | Fiction - paperback; Flamingo; 176 pages; 2003. First published in 1970, Paula Fox'sDesperate Characters has recently been "rediscovered" and much acclaimed by the literary elite (in the introduction to this edition, Jonathan Franzen says that when he first read the book in 1991 he "fell in love with it. It seemed to me obviously superior... | |
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lizzysiddal.wordpress.com
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| | | The papers are already full of the books of 2009. That's far too soon for me as I have a lot of reading left to do. PlusI won't belimiting the selection ofmy best books of 2009 to those published this year. What I can do,however,is produceLizzy's Best Fiction of the Noughties. Not such a difficult... | ||
