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• Ulysses ~ James Joyce
  on Feb 5, 2016 in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce The Odyssey Ulysses
  Words cannot explain how much I loved this amazing piece of work by Joyce!  I was astounded and flabbergasted by his knowledge and use of language.  The structure of Ulysses is based on Homer’s The Odyssey, which I did read first, however...
• The Harp In The South ~ Ruth Park
  on Feb 4, 2016 in Australian Novels Ruth Park The Harp in the South Twitter Buddy Read
  Set in the slums of Surry Hills in Sydney, during the Depression, The Harp in the South follows the misfortunes of the Darcy’s, a working poor Irish Catholic family.  It doesn’t matter where it is set, as this story can relate to any family...
• The Story of Lucy Gault ~ William Trevor
  on Aug 14, 2015 in Ireland The Story of Lucy Gault William Trevor
  Set in Ireland, opening in 1921 during the Irish War of Independence, Captain Gault finds himself the target of arsonists who aim to set fire to the homes of protestant land owners. Trying to protect the house Gault lets off a gunshot which accidenta...
• Musings on my Recent Book Choices
  on Jul 27, 2015 in Dr Bloodmoney Elizabeth Costello Homer J M Coetzee James Joyce Of Human Bondage Phillip K Dick The House on Eccles Street The Odyssey Ulysses Umbrella W Somerset Maugham Will Self
  I was thinking today about how various books have become interrelated in my reading choices.  A couple of years ago I was reading Maugham’s Of Human Bondage and by chance picked up another book where one of the characters was also reading Of H...
• A Dark Adapted Eye ~ Barbara Vine
  on May 6, 2015 in A Dark Adapted Eye Barbara Vine Edgar Award Ruth Rendell The Killing Doll
  This month’s Caffeine and Chapters Book Club read is an Edgar Award Winning Novel.  Having never read any books from the list of winners I realised this was a genre I probably hadn’t tapped into.  I liked the sound of this title over al...
• Strangers on a Train ~ Patricia Highsmith
  on Mar 16, 2015 in Charles Bruno Guy Haines Hitchcock Patricia Highsmith Strangers on a Train
  Architect Guy Haines has the ability to achieve anything he wants in life – a successful career, a fantastic home, and a beautiful new wife……. but all this changes on the day he catches a train to Metcalf to talk to his estranged wife about a d...
• A Dark Love Letter to Iceland
  on Feb 13, 2015 in Agnes Magnusdottir Bolinda audio book Burial Rites Debut Novel Hannah Kent Iceland Natan Ketilsson
  Hannah Kent intended her debut novel to be ‘a dark love letter to Iceland’ and I think she has succeeded.  I certainly feel a desire to visit this country with the beautiful place names and unforgiving landscapes after reading Burial Rites.T...
• Ransom ~ David Malouf
  on Nov 29, 2014 in David Malouf Hector Patroclus Priam Ransom The Illiad
  Ransom is a beautifully written re-imagining of one of the stories from The Illiad.  Patroclus is dead and the grieving Achilles, who has taken his revenge on Hector, is tormenting Hector's father King Priam by dragging the body behind his chari...
• Family Matters ~ Rohinton Mistry
  on Nov 29, 2014 in Family Matters Rohinton Mistry
  When the elderly Nariman Vakeel breaks his ankle his world, and that of his immediate family, changes forever.Set in Bombay, it appears Nariman is lucky for he lives in a spacious apartment with his adult step children Coomy and Jal, but after the ac...
• Middlesex ~ Jeffrey Eugenides
  on Aug 26, 2014 in Calliope Stephanides Chapter Eleven Hermaphrodite Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex Modern Literature
  Not content with the emotional impact, nor the anatomical insight, contained in a diary written by an intersex convent girl in the 19th Century Jeffrey Eugenides decided to write a novel instead that would satisfy the reader's inquiring mind.Middlese...

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