The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy My rating: 5 of 5 stars I don’t think I’ve experienced such a conversion experience – last minute, at that – as I have with Arundhati Roy’s first (and until recently, only) novel. The need for conversion may have arisen from prejudice, I confess. On reading an… Read More Book Review: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Luther and the 9.5 Theses by Kenneth Brownell My rating: 4 of 5 stars Kenneth Brownell’s short book gets four stars from me as an ‘average’. Aspects of the book swing from little more than three to a definite five. I shall attempt to unpack why and how. It is remarkable that in the academic… Read More Book Review: Luther and the 9.5 Theses by Kenneth Brownell
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez My rating: 3 of 5 stars Ok so I get the metaphorical nature of GGM’s novel. I understand the aspect of magical realism. I have no choice at all but to catch the motif of ‘solitude’ in all its facets (I appreciate I’m reading a translation… Read More Book Review: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Equus by Peter Shaffer My rating: 5 of 5 stars I first came across this play in the final moments of my teens thanks to a girlfriend I was besotted with, from Eastbourne. She had studied it (if I recall correctly) for A level. The play turned out to be one of those key texts… Read More Book Review: Equus by Peter Shaffer
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