Cabbie Monaco
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Saturday, 13 May 2017
Whatever happened to Depeche Mode?
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I'd completely forgotten about Depeche Mode, and I didn't bother to refresh my memory because by the time I made enquiries about the...
Saturday, 29 April 2017
The price of a fur coat or thereabouts
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" [-] chastity was worth more than rubies, but the truth was it was priced at a fur coat or thereabouts. " I'm reading and r...
Thursday, 27 April 2017
No happy endings
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There are probably more people who have seen the movie of Fight Club than have read the book. I decided to read it because I've develo...
Tuesday, 25 April 2017
Lancashire weather and religious superstition
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Rain, mist and wind are intrinsic to the landscape of Lancashire and to the atmosphere of Andrew Michael Hurley's book The Loney. Descr...
Sunday, 23 April 2017
No satisfactory ending
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" [-] conceived and written as a single narrative. It's division into four hefty volumes was decided when I realized that the stor...
Friday, 21 April 2017
Groan-worthy puns
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Perhaps this is one of those books that improves with a second reading. Initially, I just didn't connect with Charles Pooter, the Nobo...
Thursday, 20 April 2017
Painfully poignant
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A friend told me that Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach was one of only two books that made her cry. It describes the 1962 wedding night o...
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