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"Picking five favourite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose." -- Neil Gaiman

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

The Narrow Road to the Deep North, by Richard Flanagan

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Man Booker Prize winner, 2014 Dorrigo Evans is a surgeon, one of the Australian POWs who are dying as they build the Burmese railway, a ...

Ladder of Years, by Anne Tyler

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I read this book in October 2016, and now, in September 2018, I remember nothing of it. Decades ago, a novelist told me that Anne Tyler ...
Thursday, September 6, 2018

A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles

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I read Mr Towles' first novel, Rules of Civility , in 2012 and adored it. The book transported me to my previous incarnation as a 1930...
Thursday, August 23, 2018

Jesus: A Pilgrimage, by Fr. James Martin, SJ

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I adored this book, which cemented my very high opinion of Fr. Martin. He forms this book around a trip to the holy land, which he enliven...
Tuesday, August 29, 2017

A Time to Keep Silence, by Patrick Leigh Fermor

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Abbaye St Wandrille A dear, bookish friend strongly recommended two of Patrick Leigh Fermor's travel books to me--- A Time of Gifts ...
Sunday, August 27, 2017

The Girls, by Emma Cline

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Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Leslie Van Houten after their 1971 conviction in the Manson murders. The Girls is a coming-of-ag...
Monday, August 21, 2017

His Bloody Project, by Graeme Macrae Burnet

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This novel came to my attention when it made it onto the 2016 Man Booker Prize short list. As I was planning my first visit to Scotland ...
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