Monday, February 8, 2010

Leaves From His Life, essays by Leoš Janáček, edited by V and M Tausky

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About twenty years ago my wife and I were on a train that came to a halt. It was late afternoon in mid-August. We were on holiday. A weak su...
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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Saint Augustine by Garry Wills – a biography of the early Christian saint.

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A young African man with a taste for sex and a highly developed sense of both religion and mission travels across the Mediterranean. He deci...
Thursday, January 14, 2010

Don Quixote de La Mancha

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I’d like some advice from other writers. I’ve just finished a book. It’s my fourth time through it. It might be a bit over-written, perhaps ...
Monday, January 4, 2010

Perilous transition – Imaginings Of Sand by André Brink

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Imaginings Of Sand by André Brink was a second novel I recently encountered where an old woman, close to death, related a life story. The bo...
Friday, December 18, 2009

The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry

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In The Secret Scripture, Sebastian Barry tells a story set in Ireland. As is often the case, this story set in Ireland is very much a story ...
Saturday, December 12, 2009

The Book Of Illusions by Paul Auster

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Paul Auster’s The Book Of Illusions offers the reader pretty much what the title promises. It’s a book and there are illusions! By the time ...
Friday, November 27, 2009

The Cleft by Doris Lessing

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I often wait a day or two before writing a review. I find that my appreciation of a work often changes on reflection, sometimes magnifying t...