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Unread Authors: The Colour, by Rose Tremain - Wendy's Review
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008. The Colour, by Rose Tremain - Wendy's Review. From The Colour, page 57-. Joseph Blackstone longed to do something that would please his mother. Something definitive. Something which would undo all that he’d done wrongly or inadequately in the past. He thought that if he could achieve this, then he would rest. From The Colour, page 55-. From The Colour, page 223-. Better that we never know. She wrote to her father). From The Colour, page 168-. Lilian, too, grows from a difficult ...
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Unread Authors: The Eye in the Door, by Pat Barker - Wendy's Review
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Friday, December 26, 2008. The Eye in the Door, by Pat Barker - Wendy's Review. It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognize the thoroug and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both…. From The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by R.L. Stevenson -. The second novel in Pat Barker’s WWI trilogy -. The Eye in the Door.
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Unread Authors: Unread Authors Challenge Rules
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Friday, August 31, 2007. Unread Authors Challenge Rules. Here I go, joining the fray of Book Challengedom by, at long last, starting my own challenge: the Unread Authors Challenge. Here are the rules of the Challenge, which will run from September to February. 1) In this time, read six books by authors you have never read before. If you would like to read more in this time frame, go for it! 3) Write a blog entry that links back to this post and lists the authors and works you have chosen. 6 The Kite Runn...
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Unread Authors: The View From Castle Rock, by Alice Munro - Wendy's Review
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Sunday, September 28, 2008. The View From Castle Rock, by Alice Munro - Wendy's Review. From The View From Castle Rock, Introduction-. We can’t resist this rifling around in the past, sifting the untrustworthy evidence, linking stray names and questionable dates and anecdotes together, hanging on to threads, insisting on being joined to dead people and therefore to life. From The View From Castle Rock, Epilogue-. The View From Castle Rock. From The View From Castle Rock, page 6-. In this first story, the...
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Unread Authors: Book #5!
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Saturday, January 31, 2009. Jonathan Stroud. The Amulet of Samarkand. Rating: 3*/5 = good. I enjoyed this fantasy featuring the djinii Bartimaeus. I liked his footnote asides and his trying to fulfill his missions without getting caught. I look forward to reading the next book in the series, The Golem's Eye. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Alicia / Book Haven. Kristen / The Critical Lass. Sarah / Loose Baggy Monster. Pour of Tor / Sycorax Pine. A great and terrible beauty. Crooked Kind of Perfect.
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Unread Authors: Regeneration, Pat Barker - Wendy's Review
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Friday, December 26, 2008. Regeneration, Pat Barker - Wendy's Review. I have seen and endured the suffering of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust. From A Soldier’s Declaration by S. Sassoon, July 1917 -. Is the first book in Pat Barker’s World War I trilogy. Siegfried Sasson. Was an historical figure, a noted poet. And decorated war hero who penned the Soldier’s Declaration. From Regeneration, page 180 -. Is a war novel wh...
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Unread Authors: The Secret River, by Kate Grenville - Wendy's Review
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Monday, October 13, 2008. The Secret River, by Kate Grenville - Wendy's Review. They call this Broken Bay. River comes in yonder. He pointed ahead, where Thornhill could see only confusing stretches of water and thickly forested headlands. Best hidden river in the world,. Blackwood said with satisfaction. Never find your way in nor you’d been shown like I’m showing you. Looking inland, where gusts of wind scraped at the water, Thornhill strained to find that secret river. From The Secret River, page 100-.
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Unread Authors: Out Stealing Horses, by Per Petterson - Wendy's Review
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Tuesday, January 6, 2009. Out Stealing Horses, by Per Petterson - Wendy's Review. From Out Stealing Horses, page 15 -. In his sixty-seventh year, Trond Sander purchases a house in the Norwegian countryside and seeks the solitude and silence for which he longs. From Out Stealing Horses, page 5 -. Of course I had my father, but it was not the same. He was a grown man with a secret life behind the one that I knew about, and maybe even one behind that, and I no longer knew I could trust him. A great and terr...
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Unread Authors: First book finished!
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Saturday, September 13, 2008. Eleanor Mathews. Ambassador to the Penguins: A Naturalist's Year Aboard a Yankee Whaleship. Rating: 3*/5 = good. This book combined many of my interests - ships, Antarctica, the naturalist's wonder and interest in the animal world. I liked following Murphy's voyages both literal as he learned about the ways of whaling on the brig Daisy. And emotional as he wished to get home to his new wife, Grace. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Alicia / Book Haven. Song of the Sparrow.
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Unread Authors: Music and Silence, by Rose Tremain - Wendy's Review
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Tuesday, January 6, 2009. Music and Silence, by Rose Tremain - Wendy's Review. From Music and Silence, page 259-. The western, continental part of Denmark which separates the North Sea from the Kattegat and Baltic Sea. It is this part of King Christian IV’s reign (1629 - 1630) which serves as the backdrop to Rose Tremain’s Whitbread/Costa Award winning novel. This lush story is told from multiple points of view. The manipulative and seductive Kirsten Munk is introduced through her journal entries. They a...
