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Roughing it in the Bush
Susanna Moodie Susanna Moodie is a classic Canadian writer, so it seemed only right that I should read some of her work for the Canadian Book Challenge – after all, my aim was to try and get as broad a view as possible of Canadian literature, and this will take me back to the 19th…
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A Winter Landscape
The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson is darker than either ‘The Summer Book’ or ‘A Winter Book’ (although ‘The Squirrel’, one of the short stories in the collection, is a little peculiar). But it is every bit as wonderful. With Jansson, little things mean a lot, and her writing is so deceptively simple it’s almost hypnotic,…
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The Song of Achilles
Achilles pictured on a bowl, with the nereid Kymothea. Madeline Miller’s ‘The Song of Achilles’ is, as the title tells you, the story of Achilles, one of the great Greek heroes of the Trojan War, and it’s a wonderfully lyrical account, told from the viewpoint of Patroclus, Achilles’ friend and lover. Those of you who…
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Guard Your Daughters
My copy has no dust jacket, and is plain red, with no title on the cover, which doesn’t make for a good picture, so here is a nicer cover! I’m very fond of my new friends, but I do get angry when the tell me how dull my life must have been before I came to London. We…
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A Dinner Party from Hell
This is my copy, found in the OxfamBook Shop, published by Fontana. Injury Time by Beryl Bainbridge features a dinner party from hell. Forget ‘Abigail’s Party’, this is far, far worse. Accountant Edward Freeman has agreed to have a meal at the home of his mistress Binny and, at her insistence, has invited along another…
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