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A Distant Shoreby...Caryl Phillips rating...3 shelf...have readtags...british contemporarylit fiction immigration queerbits racism realism twentiethcentury uni entry...'I couldn't figure out if some bits were badly-written or slightly overzealous imitation of the characters on the part of the author. This was an infrequent problem, though. Overall it ...' view |
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A LOVER OF UNREASON: THE BIOGRAPHY OF ASSIA WEVILLby...EILAT NEGEV YEHUDA KOREN rating...3 shelf...have readtags...biography fable myth tednsylv entry...'I was interested in finding out more about Assia; the telling of her I found to be hopelessly indulgent. ...' view |
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A Short History of Modern Philosophy from Descartes to Wittgensteinby...Roger Scruton rating...4 shelf...have readtags...aboutphilosophy reference entry...'Main issues: - far too sycophantic, especially when dealing with Kant - far too many grammar errors. The number of commas I had to add, remove, and replace was obscene. On the ...' view |
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Anna Karenin. Translated by Rosemary Edmonds. Penguin Classics No L41by...Leo Tolstoy rating...5 shelf...favouritetags...russian tragedy entry...'What can I say? I have never cried so much for a book in my life. I was wary when I started: as with all classics, I was concerned that ...' view |
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Awkward and Definition: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schragby...Ariel Schrag rating...4 shelf...have readtags...american comic graphicnovel queer entry...'I can't get over how awesome this is? Alison Bechdel called it 'a scathing and meticulously documented autobiographical triumph', which is VERY TRUE. ...' view |
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Between Blake and Nietzsche: The Reality of Cultureby...Harvey Birenbaum rating...5 shelf...have readtags...essay literarycriticism philosophicalcriticism entry...'I really enjoyed this. I was concerned that it would suffer some awful, irreconcilable flaw that would entirely negate the delight I felt at its subject matter - but that ...' view |
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Birthday Letters: Poemsby...Ted Hughes rating...5 shelf...have readtags...poetry tednsylv entry...'I've not the words. Just go and read it. ...' view |
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Black Dogs: A Novelby...Ian McEwan rating...3 shelf...have readtags...none entry...'What's all the fuss about? This is the only time I've known McEwan to be anything resembling mundane. I'm used to his trajectories being rather more than meandering-trundling-meandering-trundling-meandering-URGH-trundling. ...' view |
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Burning Brightby...Tracy Chevalier rating...none shelf...have readtags...fiction historical shit entry...'Once again I find the bookswellread cataloguing system lacking: I could not finish this book. There should be an option for that. Admittedly my expectations were high, so there was a ...' view |
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CHATTERTONby...Peter Ackroyd rating...5 shelf...have readtags...fiction historical entry...'There are lines so beautiful that everything is changed by them ... this book makes my soul ache. I cannot praise it enough. I will not try to. ...' view |
