A good read but not a great book . To neat a finish and some characters not fleshed out perhaps deliberately so ...a modern fairy tale?
Notes from a men's book group in Cheltenham - Beer and books- Erudite and Healthy ( Eruditio et Salubritas) 2002 and still going
Tuesday, 15 December 2020
Tuesday, 10 November 2020
Tuesday, 20 October 2020
Colin Barrett Young Skins
Linked short stories , gritty energetic ,violent too much so for some . A slice of life we don't normally see.
Thursday, 17 September 2020
George Alagiah -The Burning LAnd
This is Alright . A novel written by a journo not a novelist , some interesting elements some rather formulaic elements .Quite readable and not a waste to have read it.
Tuesday, 18 August 2020
E M Forster The Longest Journey
No one liked it , not everyone finished it . Despite some wonderful sentences the whole is less than the sum of these parts ... Read one of his others.
Tuesday, 14 July 2020
The Street Ann Petry
A great success ... top marks . Set in Harlem in 1940s still relevant today and well written
Tuesday, 16 June 2020
Jan Carsons. The Firestarters
A divided jury. Half thought it great ,half a good book (or potentially so) spoiled by elements of magic realism ..Some good writing in it whatever you may think of it as a whole
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