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Have you ever wondered about reading? We keep hearing from every self help Guru out there that we should read at least 15 mins a day minimum. 15 Minutes a day is really not that bad especially if you look at the amount of time we tend to sit in front of the Television.
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We will surely remember that as children, we would read a lot of fiction that mainly covered suspense and secrets as the central element of the story. What we can say now as grown-ups is that fiction books with suspense and secrets as the main element surely have a world wide audience and appeals to
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
The Given Day: A Novel by Dennis Lehane Lehane’s movie connections are occasionally a bit too visible. Parts of the dialogue appear to owe more to modern Hollywood than to 1918-9 Boston. Both Luther and Danny can sometimes seem excessively heroic. Strictly judged, the personal endings are perhaps too neatly happy – although I can’t
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Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer Although most of this profound science fiction novel is passive as the two scientists debate the existence of God, this is a terrific tale that will have the audience pondering how they would we react if an ET arrived with strong empirical evidence that God exists. The story line
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Harry Potter: The Tales of Beedle the Bard by JK Rowling This short collection would be unremarkable were it not for the body of work that lies behind it. There is an element of padding to make it a respectable length and it will barely satisfy the Potter fanatics for more than half-an-hour. Still there
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The First Person and Other Stories by Ali Smith Ali Smith writes mainly about love – and the stories lovers tell, forget, hold on to and take over. She refers frequently to the mechanics of storytelling; never to the mechanics of sex. Names of characters are used more sparingly than the language of officialdom. A
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Believers by Zoë Heller Much fiction passes the time pleasantly enough, but when you turn the final page you’re not sure what you’re left with. You could have passed that time as agreeably with another book instead. By contrast, The Believers is profoundly satisfying. No other novel would readily stand in its stead. In her
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The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson The Gargoyle has a big personality: it is serious and daft, quiet and exuberant, a novel that makes you think and an exotic adventure. Above all, it is the work of a talented and imaginative new writer. Review: The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson – Telegraph.No Tag
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The Act of Love: A Novel by Howard Jacobson Jacobson has chosen to speak through this voice, which can be in turns tedious, ridiculous and overwrought. So we must blame Jacobson for, say, making small matters loom too large: the lined face “suggesting ecological catastrophe”; “the apocalyptic impatience” of desire; the end of an affair
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Chicago: A Novel by Alaa Al Aswany In Chicago Al Aswany has, understandably, returned to the same formula with a broad network of interconnected tales of loss and redemption, but this time the tone is much darker, less forgiving and more openly political. Review: Chicago by Alaa Al Aswany – Telegraph.No Tag