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Sep 16, 20141 min read
245. Martin Windrows - The Owl Who Liked Sitting On Caesar
Paddy liked this; I found it hard work. A true story about a man who ‘adopts’ as a pet a tawny owl. The owl’s death at the end was...
Jun 11, 20141 min read
217. Charles Dickens - Little Dorrit
One of the summer plans! Thought I’d take (to Spain) a Dickens that I didn’t know at all, never televised, so no baggage. Not sure what...
May 7, 20141 min read
204. John Updike - Couples
Reluctantly, as I hate doing this, I am abandoning this almost halfway through. It is quite different from what I expected — a...
Dec 22, 20131 min read
171. George Eliot - The Mill On The Floss
This was an A-level set text, and I read my old copy from the time, which is almost ruined by asinine adolescent observations. I will get...
Oct 7, 20131 min read
152. E. M. Forster - A Passage To India
I started this to avoid starting no.153 before our flight to Barcelona and have just spilled a glass of water over the keyboard, but it...
Nov 8, 20121 min read
53. Alan Hollinghurst - The Stranger's Child
Never read any of his before. Enjoyed it but it was long. Why are all the characters (nearly all-male) gay? Even the central female...