Monthly Archives: April 2021
Why should we buy some books from local bookshops? The Bookshop Penelope Fitzgerald
If I’m talking about books with messages in this post, then the message I read in The Bookshop is that for a book shop to fail it is only necessary for local readers to do nothing. So I’m going out to Steyning Bookshop where I’m usually tempted to spend more than I planned, but always come out with more than I bargained for. Continue reading
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Tagged Bookshop, Fitzgerald, Midnight Library, Penelope, Steyning, The Bookshop
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A book about a dog? Or something else? Flush Virginia Woolf
It’s a foolish reader who goes to Virginia Woolf for advice on canine exercise and diet. Continue reading
Does the onlooker see more of the game? Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro
Ishiguro has created an android. Klara is sympathetic, engaging and considerate, she has to be – that’s how she’s programmed. Her story has poignancy and pathos – that’s how Ishiguro writes. Continue reading
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Tagged Animal Farm, Asimov, Boxer, electric sheep, Flush, Ishiguro, K;ara and the sun, Kazuo, Woolf
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