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• Richard and Judy Spring Reads 2014

  

  Richard and Judy’s book club is back again for Spring 2014, and it looks like there are some good choices with some interesting reading to be had! Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Things That Fall From The Sky by Kevin Brockmeier...

  

  What’s Things That Fall From The Sky it all about?:The title story in this collection introduces us to a librarian called Katherine whose life is becoming... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Challenge: Short Stories January to March

  

  Hello 2014! I absolutely loved my Short Stories Challenge which I started last year. I found lots of new authors, and a new found respect for short stories in... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Village In The Jungle – Leonard Woolf

  

  What’s it all about?: This classic novel of colonial Ceylon (Sri Lanka), was first published in 1913 and is written by a prominent member of the Bloomsbury... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – The Strange Career of Dr. Raju Gopalarajan by Rajesh...

  

  What’s The Strange Career of Dr. Raju Gopalarajan all about?:The second short story in this collection is about an Indian man who loses his job but decides to... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Last Man in Tower – Aravind Adiga

  

  What’s it all about?:A tale of one man refusing to leave his home in the face of property development. Tower A is a relic from a co-operative housing society... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – The Beautiful Indifference by Sarah Hall from the...

  

  What’s The Beautiful Indifference all about?:The Beautiful Indifference tells the story of a woman who is having a relationship (mainly sexual) with a younger... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Wintergirls – Laurie Halse Anderson

  

  What’s it all about?:Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in matchstick bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the skinniest.... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – The Red-Headed League by Arthur Conan Doyle from the...

  

  What’s The Red-Headed League all about?:In The Redheaded League, Holmes is engaged upon two seemingly unrelated cases, a daring bank robbery and the... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Talking About The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier with Chrissi

  

  What’s it all about?:In New York Times bestselling author Tracy Chevalier’s newest historical saga, she introduces Honor Bright, a modest English Quaker who... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• WWW Wednesday #25

  

  Hello everyone, it’s WWW Wednesday! Thanks as ever to MizB at Should Be Reading for hosting.To join in you need to answer 3 questions..•What are you currently... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Code Name Verity – Elizabeth Wein

  

  What’s it all about?:I have two weeks. You’ll shoot me at the end no matter what I do.That’s what you do to enemy agents. It’s what we do to enemy agents. Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Reeling for the Empire by Karen Russell, from the...

  

  What’s Reeling for the Empire all about?:Reeling for the Empire is the second story in this collection by Karen Russell where a community of girls held captive... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Month in the Country – J.L. Carr

  

  What’s it all about?:In J. L. Carr’s deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• WWW Wednesday #24

  

  Hello everyone, it’s WWW Wednesday! Thanks as ever to MizB at Should Be Reading for hosting.To join in you need to answer 3 questions..•What are you currently... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – The Sea of Trees by Randy Taguchi from the Collection...

  

  What’s The Sea of Trees all about?:The Sea of Trees is the second story in this collection by Randy Taguchi which tells the story of three boys who face a... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Book of Secrets – Elizabeth Joy Arnold

  

  What’s it all about?:After more than twenty years of marriage, Chloe Sinclair comes home one night to find that her husband, Nate, is gone. Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• WWW Wednesday #23

  

  Hello everyone, it’s WWW Wednesday! I haven’t been able to participate the last few weeks as I’ve been so busy but I’m in hospital for three weeks now and will... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Countless Stones by Lucy Wood from the Collection...

  

  What’s Countless Stones all about?:Countless Stones is about a young woman who is trying to complete a number of mundane tasks (check the doors are locked and... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Solaris – Stanislaw Lem

  

  What’s it all about?:A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem.When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE