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I've just finished reading the latest issue of Granta, the quarterly of new writing which is now published in London and New York.
What made this one special for me was that its subject this issue was Pakistan where all but one of the nineteen items are written by Pakistanis so you get a completely different insight into their problems, and they are many. |
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I've taken it easy this week by reading a couple of the Ian Rankin Inspector Rebus novels. Am now about to start on the Booker Prize short list of six books which I got at a very good price on-line with the Bookpeople.
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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.
----------------------------------------"Time magazine's Lev Grossman placed it at number three in the Top 10 Fiction Books of 2007, and praised it as a "dense, rich, pressure-packed guide to enduring the unendurable." A brilliant writer, a devastatingly grim story that evokes the deepest of emotions. Definitely on my list of best novels read. |
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Just finished The Long Song by Andrea Levy from the Booker short list. Her highly rated novel about West Indians arriving in London just after the second world war has now been followed up by moving to Jamaica a\t the time the locals were freed from slavery.
Highly informative as well as being an excellent read. |
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This morning I finished reading The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson which, subsequent to my buying it. was declared the year's Booker Prize winner.
A great comic novel if you appreciate Jewish jokes. I loved it. |
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My latest read was Moby Dick or The Whale by Herman Melville. A Very good read though at times a little tedious to get through but if you stick with it, it's very gratifying. I learned more about the whaling industry during the 1800's than I thought possible from a novel.
I seem to be leaning towards the classics lately. |
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It's a while since I read Moby Dick when I had a deliberate spell of going through the classics when I had a 45 minute each way, train journey to work.
Now, I've just finished reading In A Strange Room by the South African novelist Dalmon Calgut. This is part of my going through the Booker short list and is a quite different novel of a young man making three walking journeys. I found it fascinating and so read it in a couple of days. |
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Our Kind of Traitor by John Le Carre Just started reading but great so far as usually like all his books !!
regards |
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