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I've just finished this now, really liked it (much more so than Mary). Lee, I agree it does lose it's way a little after she moves to America but I found some of those chapters very moving as well (view spoiler)
I've put the poll up so nominations are closed for the Christmas side-read.
I've just set up the poll for the xmas side-read - hope it's worked ok - will you let me know if the invite come through ok or not please? (never done one before)
The Tibor Fischer book was the only one I'd seen before - and that only cos I'd been looking up his books as he's the monthly author! is it maybe to promote fiction which they think should be better known???
Oh dear, I can kind of understand him being a bit upset now then ;)
I'm about 100 pages in, it's brilliant so far - have just got to the bit where the people from Paradise have started attacking the white people's houses.
I haven't even got to the end of the first chapter and my heart's already breaking for Chipo!
That would be cool - I would love to send you all some samples over the internet, maybe someone should invent Wonkavision like from Charlie and the Chocolate factory!
Sounds good Hilary - I have got The Gift of Rain on my kindle and am hoping to get it soon, especially now!
Oh good, glad you're enjoying it. I haven't started yet as had to do some baking this afternoon but will make a start either tonight or tomorrow (have only got 4 more chapters of Mistborn left)
I popped into town this morning and found this for a fiver in The Works: Sweet Things by Annie Rigg. I can't find the link for it but it's a recipe book for chocolates, marshmallows, caramels etc to give as gifts - looks yummy!
Yeah I reckon I will probable be hiding behind a cushion for most of it! Glad you all liked it
Thanks - I will watch it later (hope it isn't too scary) ;)
Ha ha, I will have to watch it then. Just something I haven't gotten round to ;)
They are both amazing poems - I really want to get his book Drysalter@ Tracey - you are the 2nd person who has said it reminds them of Alien! I haven't seen it (I know, I know!) so am missing that - what is it in the poem that is like this film?
Can I just share this one with everyone?? It's another Michael Symons Roberts poem (Lee posted one of his weeks ago) - I was looking for something for another group cos it was my turn and found this, it's brilliant :HITCHCOCKEAN
The birds are taking over. Not in rows on high wires,
chittering on rooves at passers-by, fixing a lone child
with their red-ringed, sink-hole eyes, not by massing
on our window-sills at dawn and tap-tap-tapping
with the urgency, hunger, blunt-sense of the wild,
not with a skirl and swoop like smoke cut loose from fire,
but with a single egg inside each one of us,
lodged in the fold between lungs, not felt until the break,
la petite mort when shell cracks and a song begins,
an airless, blood-borne trill, a pulse, a stretch of wing,
which may be dun wren, bird of paradise, dull rook,
and none of us can know what kind is ours,
nor even know for sure it’s there, this skitter,
this arrhythmia, this restlessness, this ache that makes
you walk out, mid-meal, steal a car and disappear.
Oh dear, sounds like she got a bit too big for her boots. This kind of reminds me of modern celeb's who have nothing really going for them over anybody else except that they get talked up by the media.
It was good, not as amazing as some of the reviews make out but a decent pageturner. I've heard really good things about her other 2 books Zoo City and Moxyland so will be checking them out at some point.
Yay!!! One I've actually read yippee! But yeah I prefer the Bronte's and Dickens too, they tell much better stories with a lot more depth ;)
