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My Book Recommendation – John The Revelator

Title: John the Revelator
 
Author:  Peter Murphy
Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Faber and Faber (3 Sep 2009)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0571240216
ISBN-13: 978-0571240210
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 2 cm
Product Description
Stuck in a small town, worried over by his single mother – the chain-smoking, bible-quoting Lily – and the 'neighbourly' Mrs Nagle, John Devine yearns for escape. When Jamey Corboy, [...:]

Global Warming News by Annette J Dunlea

Global Warming News by Annette J Dunlea Published in Carrigdhoun Newspaper Feb 13th 2010
Global warming is the increase in the Earth's near surface and oceans and its projected continuation. Global surface temperature increased to 0.74 bewteen the start and end of the 20th century. Scientists believe that this is responsible for the increased number of [...:]

My Favourite Toni Morrison Book 2 – A Mercy

Title: A Mercy
 
Author: Toni Morrison
Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage (4 Jun 2009)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0099502542
ISBN-13: 978-0099502548
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 1.2 cm
Product Description
On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment of a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens' life changes. With her intelligence [...:]

My Favourite Toni Morrison Book 1 – Beloved

Title:Beloved
 
Author :  Toni Morrison
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (21 Aug 1997)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0099760118
ISBN-13: 978-0099760115
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 2.4 cm
Product Description
It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be [...:]

My Book Recommendation – Old School

Title:Old School
 
Author: Tobias Wolff
Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (7 Feb 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0747574650
ISBN-13: 978-0747574651
Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.7 x 1.8 cm
Product Description
At one prestigious American public school, the boys like to emphasise their democratic ideals – the only acknowledged snobbery is literary snobbery. Once a term, a big name from the literary world [...:]

My Favourite Book 2 by J M Coetzee – Summertime

Title: Summertime
 
Author:  J.M. Coetzee
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage (2 Sep 2010)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0099540541
ISBN-13: 978-0099540540
Product Description
A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on a period in the seventies when, the biographer senses, Coetzee was 'finding his feet as a writer'. He embarks on a [...:]

My Favourite J M Coetzee Book: 1 – Disgrace

Title: Disgrace
 
Author:  J.M. Coetzee
Paperback: 220 pages
Publisher: Secker & Warburg (6 April 1999)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0099289520
ISBN-13: 978-0099289524
Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 1.6 cm
Product Description
A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities, he is expected to apologise and repent in an effort [...:]

My Literary Blog of the Week : Literary Compass

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It's (for) You: The Post/human is Calling
December 28, 2009 by ejoy



There is, to reprise Avital Ronell, no off switch for the 'post-human'. The call is always (for) you. It leaves you ringing.
—Julian Yates, "It's (for) You; Or, the Tele-T/r/opical Post-human" (forthcoming in the inaugural issue of postmedieval)
I have been spending my holiday break in the final [...:]

My Book Recommendation : Worst Case

 
Title:Worst Case: A Detective Michael Bennett Novel
 
Author:  James Patterson
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Century (21 Jan 2010)
ISBN-10: 1846054702
ISBN-13: 978-1846054709
Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.6 x 3.6 cm
Product Description
The son of one of New York's wealthiest families is snatched off the street and held hostage. His parents can't save him, because this kidnapper isn't demanding money. Instead, he [...:]

My Book Recommendation : Catcher in the Rye

 
Title: The Catcher in the Rye
 
Author: J. D. Salinger
Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Penguin (4 Aug 1994)
Language English
ISBN-10: 014023750X
ISBN-13: 978-0140237504
Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.4 cm
Product Description
The Catcher in Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who [...:]