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Tag: book review

Book Review -Wyrd Sisters

14/01/202120/04/2021 margaret

This was our second read of a Terry Pratchett, and again feelings were mixed. Comedy is such an individual thing – some found it hilarious (the footnotes are something special – and you miss these on the kindle edition), others Read More …

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Book review – Complete short stories of Ernest Hemingway

22/12/202020/04/2021 margaret

by Margaret on 22/12/2020 in Book Club Hemingway — short stories — acknowledged master of the genre — Nobel prize winner. Let’s just say that he didn’t float the boat for most of us. I guess we should have expected it and maybe the choice Read More …

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Book review – The great alone

10/11/202020/04/2021 margaret

I struggled to get into ‘The Great Alone’ by Kirstin Hannah’ however the rest of the group had all enjoyed it – it was a story that moved with pace with much packed in. The comment was ‘What else can Read More …

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Book Review – Keeping the world away

19/10/202011/02/2021 margaret

‘Keeping the world away’ follows the life of a painting from creation through the hands of various owners – all women. The painting Margaret Forster has selected as the basis for the book is a real one – a simple Read More …

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Book review: The Clockmaker’s Daughter

15/09/202020/04/2021 margaret

Kate Morton’s book ‘The clockmaker’s daughter’ is something of a door stopper – and the considered view was that she could have cut down on a few of the strands of her story without losing the essential plot – there Read More …

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