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Feb 27, 20191 min read
663. John Boyne - A History Of Loneliness
Enjoyed 658, so thought I would try another. This was good and well written again, but I found the time shifts annoying and detracted...
Jul 20, 20181 min read
611. Graham Greene - The Comedians
Took me a long time to read this (not long) book, but a lot of sport on TV and I struggled to get into it. The characters all have banal...
Jan 18, 20181 min read
567. Edna O'Brien - The Country Girls
Not sure that I have ever read any Edna O’Brien before, if so a long time ago. Although set in rural, agricultural Ireland in (I am...
Dec 2, 20171 min read
554. Graham Greene - A Burnt Out Case
Read this about a year ago with little comprehension. So the plot is: Querry, a successful and celebrity architect turns up in a Catholic...
Jun 19, 20171 min read
502. David Mark - Cruel Mercy
The 6th DS McAvoy book. This one was certainly different; set not in Hull but New York, and with a splenetic plot involving the Mafia,...
Oct 23, 20151 min read
348. Graham Greene - Monsignor Quixote
Another purloined book, the only Greene I could see there that I hadn’t read. This is a late and rather slight book; a parody I assume of...
May 3, 20151 min read
300. Sarah Dunant - Blood And Beauty
This is a fictionalised account of the Borgias. The writing is poor; the characters very stereotyped and lacking in character. Reads...
May 10, 20141 min read
206. James Joyce - Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
Read this (copiously) as an A-level set text about 40 years ago and couldn’t answer the question on it then. I think the question was...