Books and Things

Maybe I ought to have a link back here to my blogger entry about my summer reading

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Well the only person who enjoyed Kate Grenville's The idea of Perfection couldn't make the meeting. I managed the first 50(?) pages or so was rather too busy and was put off by the seemingly random italicisation.

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And shamlessly pinched from my unbroken blog - though this one is now unbroken too! - here's all the titles that got missed!

• Death and the Penguin (Sept)
  
• Talking Heads II (Aug)
  
• Andrea Ashworth Once in a house on Fire - and with the classic read Of Mice and Men (Jul)
  
• William Trevor's After Rain(Jun)
  

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This month's (well May 2006!) book that we'll be discussing on Monday (at Monica's) was Andrew Greig's That Summer, it seemed to leave me pretty unmoved - maybe an early life surfeit of Biggles is responsible - must revisit the book again briefly this weekend. Internet sites seem to rave over it though.. and he's a climber/poet..

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March/April's book was Donna Leon's Fatal Remedies a detective story based in Venice one of her Guido Brunetti series. I thought it had pretty scenery and an interesting sub-plot but when you removed that the main story was not too gripping. Might try another one sometime..

We also that month took on a classic read - Jane Austen's Persuasion.

(couldn't export from the old broken bats blog so creating a few entries as new)

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