false<![CDATA[The Night Watch]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175722268m/550720.jpg55072018Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit partying, and sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, <i>The Night Watch</i> tells the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past - whose lives, and those of their friends and lovers, connect in tragedy, stunning surprise and exquisite turns, only to change irreversibly in the shadow of a grand historical event.134485book2792006The Night Watchtotal:2238|5:341|4:830|3:725|2:260|1:82|22387802328340314falsefalseSun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007Mon Mar 19 07:50:25 -0700 2007Sun Jun 01 13:12:47 -0700 2008 Oh well.
Luckily, this book improved after the first 250 dreadful pages. But isn't that a ...more...]]>
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Margaret Mahy -- slow and lyrical, with surprising moments of whimsy. The story is filled with compelling characters and tracks the way their lives intersect, overlap, and diverge again.
I was less thrilled with ...more...]]>
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41falsefalseThu Aug 30 20:00:00 -0700 2007Wed Jul 11 09:46:22 -0700 2007Sun Jun 01 13:12:47 -0700 2008 That said, this novel (as other reviewers h...more...]]>
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it takes place during and just after WWII in london, when it was getting the shit bombed out of it. i’d never read any historical fiction from that time and place, so it was a really interesting an...more...]]>
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40falsefalseThu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009Tue Jul 14 14:45:11 -0700 2009Thu Jul 16 13:10:24 -0700 2009 I am shyly touching this book's cover as I type this.
Good things about this book: lovely story, lovely intermingling of tales and lives and peo...more...]]>
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Shaking off the reductive expectations of her self-described "lesbian Victorian romp[s]," Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith,Sarah Waters proves she's no one-trick pony with The Night Watch. This doesn't come as a surprise to the critical colloquy, which paints Waters as a vigorous writer ...more...]]>
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People in London after WWII doing things they think inappropriate. Watching other people. Sometimes listening.
If you are a fan of short stories--particularly short stories strung into a very long novel--then ...more...]]>
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