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Posted in Book Reviews, Celebrate the Author on Nov 20th, 2008
I was struck by the Notice “By Order of the Author” preceding this story: Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. So, of course this alerted me to [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Celebrate the Author on Jul 18th, 2008
July’s Birthday author is Joanne Harris (3 July), so I read Chocolat (with apologies to Ann!) There is so much more to this book than a simple story about a chocolaterie. This is a fabulous book. I saw the film a few years ago (so I’ve forgotten the details) and loved that and amazingly the book is [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Celebrate the Author on Jul 5th, 2008
I had intended to read one of Thomas Hardy’s books in June as part of the Celebrate the Author Challenge. Hardy was born on 2 June 1840 at Higher Brockhampton, near Dorchester. I’ve read some of his books and thought I read one I hadn’t previously read for the challenge, but I didn’t get one [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Celebrate the Author, Challenges, Fiction, Paintings on May 27th, 2008
I expect a book by Margaret Forster to be good and this one is no exception. It is essentially the story of a painting, a variant of Gwen John’s “The Corner of the Artist’s Room in Paris“, as over the years it passes from one woman to another. The painting on the left is taken from the back cover [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Celebrate the Author, Short Stories on Apr 28th, 2008
Happy Birthday to Ian Rankin. My choice for the Celebrate the Author Challenge in April is A Good Hanging by Ian Rankin whose birthday is today 28 April. A Good Hanging is a collection of twelve short stories featuring Inspector John Rebus, set in Edinburgh. All the stories are concise and I think convey the [...]
Posted in Books, Celebrate the Author, Poetry on Mar 19th, 2008
The Celebrate the Author Challenge is designed to “celebrate” author birthdays. My author for March is Robert Frost who was born on 26 March 1874 in San Francisco. He moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts and apart from three years when he lived in England, he spent the rest of his life in New England. I have [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Celebrate the Author, Fiction on Feb 16th, 2008
My Celebrate the Author Challenge book for February was going to be one by Amy Tan or Alice Walker, who have birthdays in February. However, I was reading The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster, whose birthday is also in February, so I changed my list. That’s a good thing about this challenge – I [...]
Posted in Books, Celebrate the Author, Films on Jan 25th, 2008
Virginia Woolf was born on 25 January 1882. She was the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen and the wife of Leonard Woolf. Fearing that she was going mad, she weighed her pocket down with a large stone and drowned herself in the River Ouse on 28 March 1941. She wrote many books, works of non-fiction [...]
Posted in Books, Celebrate the Author on Oct 20th, 2007
Celebrate the Author Challenge After writing the last post about not buying any more books for a while I found this challenge. It is a twelve month challenge from January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008, set up by Becky. The challenge is designed to “celebrate” authors’ birthdays. Choose one author for each month of [...]
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