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silencing the bell: Small Ceremonies
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Saturday, 11 July 2015. I reviewed ' Larry's Party. Way back in 2009, and then ' Unless. In 2013 and 'Small Ceremonies' has been waiting patiently on the shelf for quite some time. It revolves around the Gill family. I should count up some time the number of books I have reviewed that revolve around someone in academia, it feels like it would be a long list; maybe it is just because this is a world that so many writers are familiar with. It is, after all, what I would want. But I keep poking away. She ge...
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silencing the bell: Who will run the frog hospital?
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Sunday, 26 July 2015. Who will run the frog hospital? I read ' Self Help. Stories by Lorrie Moore. Monkey tells me I shouldn't beat myself up over it or turn it into a chore, so I won't. The week she was hired as Cinderella, Sils made a painting of this, what we'd done with the frogs those years before. She painted a picture in deep blues and greens. In the background, through some trees, stood two little girls dressed up as saints or nurses or boys or princesses - what were they? View my complete profile.
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silencing the bell: 101 Books
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We all like a good book challenge. These very challenging looking books came up when I searched for an image, they are made of sheet lead and thorn bushes. I like it. I was reading the other day about one of those 101 things to do. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. Middlemarch by George Eliot*. Moby Dick by Herman Melville. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing*. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Red Doc by Anne Carson. The Left Han...
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silencing the bell: I Capture the Castle
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Saturday, 11 July 2015. I Capture the Castle. I feel a bit old to be reading 'I Capture the Castle' by Dodie Smith. Here at the beginning of the book we get some impression of the depths of their fall from grace:. Goodness, Topaz is actually putting on eggs to boil! No on told me the hens had yielded to prayer. Oh, excellent hens! I daresay I am being very silly but there it is! I DO NOT ENVY ROSE. When I imagine changing places with her I get the feeling I do on finishing a novel with a brick-wall h...
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silencing the bell: Book Review lists
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Links to all books reviewed in 2015. On Looking by Alexandra Horowitz. The Hundred Year Old Man who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson. Moby Dick by Herman Melville. The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman. We are all Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler. The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-Mi Hwang. Hunger by Knut Hansun. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki. Man at the Helm by Nina Stibbe. Twelve Moons by Mary Oliver. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
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silencing the bell: More Reviews
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Book reviews written for my old STB website. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. ISBN 0 330 28095 3. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. Published by Counterpoint 2003. ISBN 1 85242 889 9. Tehanu by Ursula le Guin. Tehanu - Ursula Le Guin. Published by Puffin 1992. ISBN 0 14 034802 6. Send in the Idiots by Kamran Nazeer. Send in the Idiots by Kamran Nazeer. Wool love-fun...
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silencing the bell: Fried Green Tomatoes
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Monday, 13 July 2015. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe' is my favourite film. On that basis alone I put the book on my 101 Books list. Ruth tried to fix up the place. She put a picture of a ship sailing in the moonlight, but Idgie came right along behind her and took it down and stuck up a picture she found of a bunch of dogs sitting around a card table, smoking cigars and playing polker. And she wrote underneath it, The Dill Pickle Club. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Year of the monkey.
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silencing the bell: Art for Trees
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Friday, 28 August 2009. I am simply adding this post to direct any visitors to Art for Trees. A blog that has been set up to raise funds for the reforestation of the area of Greece recently devastated by fire. It has been set up by Manya. 28 August 2009 at 23:02. 29 August 2009 at 00:49. Word of mouth is a powerful tool. Your post is helping to get the word out there about how we can help. x. 29 August 2009 at 09:41. Thanks for this Martine. Friends from Athens are incensed. They all reckon that ...Thank...
