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This month’s snapshot includes the follow-up to a novel I read well over twenty years ago, a short story collection popular with bloggers a while back and an account of a garden restoration which draws on art, literature and history. The novel I’m reading is Michael Bracewell’s Unfinished Business, a sequel of sorts to The […]
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This month’s snapshot includes a much-acclaimed Booker Prize winner, a short story collection by the mother of one of my favourite novelists and an account of a year spent sampling Britain’s subcultures The novel I’m reading is Samantha Harvey’s Orbital which follows six astronauts aboard a space station as they encircle the earth multiple times
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This month’s snapshot includes a novel about three astronauts preparing to travel to Mars, a short story collection from an Irish national literary treasure and a memoir about living alone and unattached well into old age. The novel I’m reading is Meg Howrey’s The Wanderers which I bought having loved They’re Going to Love You,
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This month’s snapshot includes a novel I’ve almost decided to give up, a short story collection from an acclaimed Irish author which has started well and a memoir that might make you think twice about eating in Parisian restaurants. The novel I’m reading is an unsolicited copy of Juhea Kim’s City of Night Birds sent
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This month’s snapshot includes a novel which disappointed several bloggers whose opinions I trust, a short story collection by an International Booker Prize longlisted author and a memoir by a museum guard. The novel I’m reading is Francis Spufford’s Light Perpetual which I started yesterday so it’s early days. It begins with a devastating event
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Quite a mixture this month including one from a much-loved author with a long career behind her and two others by writers I’d not come across before. The novel I’m reading is My Husband by French writer Maud Ventura (transl. Emma Ramadan) in which the narrator is still in the grips of obsessive passion for
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I posted the first snapshot of my reading on New Year’s Day, expecting to follow it with another in February which somehow didn’t come off thanks to my gallivanting to London and Stockholm. This month I’m staying put with enough time on my hands to post the second. The novel I’m reading is Your Absence
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Happy New Year! Today seems a good day to try out an idea I’ve adapted from a weekly meme hosted by Sam at Taking On a World of Words with which I’m familiar from What Cathy Read Next. Coincidentally, it falls on a Wednesday but I’m plumping for a monthly, or thereabouts, snapshot, aiming to
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