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Continue reading →: Recommended Resources: J School and Escape the Content Mills
If you look at the sidebars to the right of this post you’ll see two links to writing courses. I don’t usually put links like this on my site but I will make an exception here because I’ve personally benefited from the excellent tuition offered by Carol Tice and Linda…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: The Lost Garden by Katherine Swartz
Cumbria, October 1919, and the war is almost over but it comes too late for Eleanor Sanderson and her family as they receive the devastating news that her brother Walter has been killed in action. As they struggle with their grief Eleanor’s father hires a young gardener, Jack Taylor, to…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Gora
Gora by Rabindranath Tagore My rating: 5 of 5 stars I wasn’t entirely sure if I was going to like this book – Tagore’s fifth and arguably best novel. It was written in 1910 and so belongs to an era where language then was often flowery and quite superfluous by…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: The Good Muslim
The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam My rating: 5 of 5 stars ‘The Good Muslim’ by Tahmima Anam is one of only a handful of books in my life which has left me in real pain. I felt something akin to grief when the book came to an end as…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Growing Gills: A Fly Fisherman’s Journey
Growing Gills: A Fly Fisherman’s Journey by David Joy My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Fishing is not a hobby; it is who we are.” David Joy, a self-confessed ichthyologist, was obsessed with fish from a very early age. By the age of five he knew how to hold a…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Power Trip: A Decade of Policy, Plots and Spin
Power Trip: A Decade of Policy, Plots and Spin by Damian McBride My rating: 3 of 5 stars Damian McBride paints himself as a bastard from the out in his book looking at British politics during the Brown years. He’s right – he is. But then he seems, as he…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières My rating: 4 of 5 stars I will be frank. I hated this book from the start. It is everything a book shouldn’t be in this modern day and age. The author uses long-winded and exorbitant language which gives every impression of being…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Fear of Evil
Fear Of Evil by John Yeoman My rating: 5 of 5 stars I thoroughly enjoyed reading this first novel from John Yeoman. I do wonder, however, just what category it should go into? On the one hand, it is an historical murder mystery; on the other it is a textbook…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Framed Butterflies
Framed Butterflies: A Novel by Raad Rahman My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was a fascinating look into modern life for middle class Bangladeshis against the the backdrop of a scandalous lesbian affair. One of the few books really dealing with the double-mindedness of a certain class of Asians,…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee My rating: 5 of 5 stars There are some books which simply deserve to be called masterpieces right from the beginning and Harper Lee’s story is one such example. It is astonishing to think that this was the author’s one and only novel…
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