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C.S.’s 2024 Year in Books
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By talking to other writer friends - who always have an opinion which, right or wrong, seems to shake my block and drive me back to the screen.
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My review of Sleep It Off Lady, by Jean Rhys
Sleep It Off Ladyby Jean RhysMy rating: 5 out of 5 stars
The late Jean Rhys remains my favourite writer ever and this selection of her work shines as only her words can. There was no one like her before, nor has there been anyone since. Her wry, brutally honest, self-deprecating voice is so beautifully tormented she's irresistible whatever your gender. She grabs you by the heart, chews you up and s
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Restoration monarch Charles II I had long procrastinated reading on, until this splendid book appeared before me. At once admiring this elegant product, its cover art and back page snippets, I was compelled to take it home. This great-grandson of the ...more |
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Restoration monarch Charles II I had long procrastinated reading on, until this splendid book appeared before me. At once admiring this elegant product, its cover art and back page snippets, I was compelled to take it home. This great-grandson of the ...more |
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Another great job by Alexander Walker, this story covers the life an intriguing, beautiful and talented woman. Not the easiest of subjects for anyone to document, Ms. Hepburn had something almost indescribable - I disagree that she broke through on ac ...more |
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This good old (1957) nostalgic winter's night read had me gripped from start to finish. John Braine's gritty post-war British characters are astonishingly true, their strengths believable, their defects authentic, their dialogue the real McCoy. After ...more |
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Blood Sisters: The Women Behind The Wars Of The Roses
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Framing this period as a female saga has become a popular theme. This example, conceptually sharp and intriguing, stands higher than some of recent years. My usual history reading centres on the pre- and post- Tudor periods, which offers context for t ...more |
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This is a great read and will, I suspect, be more confronting to agnostics than to worshippers, it's thoroughness and well-argued points really putting the reader on the spot and making them think, rationally. English biologist Richard Dawkins is a pr ...more |
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| After thoroughly enjoying Sarah Gristwood's other historical biographies, it was with eager anticipation that I turned to this. The legendary courtship between my favourite Tudor monarch and her Master of the Horse, Robert Dudley (later knighted Earl ...more | |
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“I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.”
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“A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.”
― Good Morning, Midnight
― Good Morning, Midnight
“My life, which seems so simple and monotonous, is really a complicated affair of cafés where they like me and cafés where they don't, streets that are friendly, streets that aren't, rooms where I might be happy, rooms where I shall never be, looking-glasses I look nice in, looking-glasses I don't, dresses that will be lucky, dresses that won't, and so on.”
― Good Morning, Midnight
― Good Morning, Midnight
“Life if curious when reduced to its essentials”
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“A room? A nice room? A beautiful room? A beautiful room with bath? Swing high, swing low, swing to and fro...This happened and that happened...
And then the days came and I was alone.”
― Good Morning, Midnight
And then the days came and I was alone.”
― Good Morning, Midnight
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Lauren wrote: "Thanks for the friend request. Also, good answer - very good answer!"Lauren wrote: "Thanks for the friend request. Also, good answer - very good answer!"
Thanks Lauren, yes I've been a diehard Jean Rhys fanatic for about 35 years :-)
