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Jun 17, 20231 min read
1074. Zadie Smith - White Teeth
I have read this before, and it is good, but long and quite difficult. The story of two families, one an Englishman married to a...
Aug 17, 20211 min read
885. Uzma Jalaluddin - Ayesha At Last
A cleverly written take on 'Pride & Prejudice', based in the muslim immigrant community in Toronto. So we have Ayesha (Elizabeth Bennett)...
Nov 9, 20151 min read
353. Lawrence Durrell - Mountolive
Meant to read a Zola next, but got a bit hooked by no.352. This is much more of a stand- alone novel, centering mainly on Mountolive, a...
Oct 16, 20151 min read
345. Elizabeth Strout - The Burgess Boys
P enjoyed this, but I didn’t much. You can tell it is a ‘good quality’ novel, but I just didn’t warm to it. The Burgess' are a couple of...