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Just finished reading Peter and Olivier in America by Peter Carey, another short listed Booker Prize book.
It's the story of a French Aristocrat with his British servant coming to the early United States based pretty well on the true story of Alexis de Tocqueville's visit and is very lively and interesting about how the early days of the US was seen from the other side of the pond. |
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Currently reading Deeper by Jeff Long. Fiction about a subterranean civilization and it's contact with surface dwellers. This is the sequel to The Descent.
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Just finished C by Tom McCarthy, another of the Booker short list novels.
A delightful and interesting novel covering the life of a young man in the early years of radio transmission at the beginning of the last century and covering his life in rural England, as an Observer in WWI and a few years afterwards in Egypt. |
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HG Wells on the Future
G. Wells (1866-1946) gave us The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds and practically invented science fiction as we know it. Now, thanks to the BBC, you can travel back in time and get a glimpse into Wells’ creative mind. During the 1930s and 1940s, Wells made regular radio broadcasts for the BBC, where he had the freedom to range widely, to talk about “world politics, the history of the printing press, the possibilities of technology and the shape of things to come…” Nine recordings now appear online. Finally, don’t miss one of my personal favorites. Orson Welles reading a dramatized version of H.G. Well’s The War of the Worlds in 1938. It’s perhaps the most famous radio broadcast in American history and it drove America into a bout of mass hysteria, at least for a night |
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Just finished the most recent issue of Granta the theme of which is The Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists. It's available in the original language but I have the English translated issue which is still very impressive covering an area not previously known to me.
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Just finished reading Field Grey by Philip Kerr. If you don't know of him, his books are based on a Berlin cop which started as stories in the thirties and this latest is set in the post war period of the different sectors under Allied control.
If you like the occasional thriller, these are just that little bit different and well worth a try. |
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Just finished reading The Quickening Maze bu Adam Foulds.
An historical novel based on true events about an asylum in Epping forest to which John Clare and Tennyson sought refuge; very interesting. |
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 Historical fiction of a bygone era told simply but with emotional impact. A young mother with a "challenged" son strives to survive her circumstances. The book touches on various subjects from poverty to racism during the Great Depression. |
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Sounds good; I've made a note of it.
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