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Category Archives: 101greatreads
1491 by Charles C. Mann (Knopf)
“The plane took in weather that was surprisingly cool for central Boliva and flew east, toward the Brazilian border.” THE symbolism of the plane is that we now take for granted what people less than 100 years ago would never … Continue reading
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The American plague by Molly Caldwell Crosby (Berkley)
“The rain came in west Africa. A massive wind blew in from the Atlantic coast bringing the deluge of water known as the south-west monsoon.” IT is fitting that there is quote early on here from Edgar Allan Poe. Before … Continue reading
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Allen Klein by Fred Goodman (Mariner)
“It may have been the dramatic grounds; he may have been impressed that George C Scott and Colleen Dewhurst were renting it. Whatever the reason, Allen Klein wanted the house.” THE house was where the deals were done. In the … Continue reading
The story of the lost child by Elena Ferrante (Europa)
“From October 1976 until 1979, when I returned to Naples to live, I avoided resuming a steady relationship with Lila. But it wasn’t easy.” OF COURSE, it was not easy. Lila “remained the same restless creature with an irresistible force … Continue reading
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The vegetarian by Han Kang (Portobello)
“Before my wife turned vegetarian, I had always thought of her as completely unremarkable in every way.” HAD this abrasive exercise in misogynic chauvinism, puppet women, mad dreams, bizarre pornography been written by a man I wager it might have … Continue reading
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Grief is the thing with feathers by Max Porter (Faber)
“There is a feather on my pillow.” THERE are only three characters here, the crow, the dad and twin boys sharing the grief after their mother dies. Each has their perspective. The dad: ‘wondering what to do. Shuffling around‘. The … Continue reading
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Tagged crow poems, faber, grief is the thing with feathers, hannah griffiths, max porter, ted hughes
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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante (Europa)
“I saw Lila for the last time five years ago, in the winter of 2005”. FERRANTE starts the third book of her Neapolitan quartet with a burst of energy, bubbling to get on with things. She leaps forward, gathering her … Continue reading
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The story of a new name by Elena Ferrante (Europa)
“In the spring of 1966, Lila in a state of great agitation, entrusted to me a metal box that contained eight notebooks”. NEW readers do not start here. The second part of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan passionatas is not a sequel, … Continue reading
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Being mortal by Atul Gawande (Metropolitan)
“I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn’t one of them.” ON the surface this is the story of the death of Atul Gawande’s father, who, which makes it the more poignant, was also a … Continue reading
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