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REVIEW: The Last April Dancers – Jean Thesman
Catherine St John, usually called Cat by her friends, is nearly sixteen years old and lives with her parents in a small town called Waterford near Seattle. Her mother is a real estate agent and her father is unemployed after … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Re-read, Reviews
Tagged first person narrative, growing up, high school, Jean Thesman, mental illness, parents, present tense, secrets, tragedy, YA novels, young love
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REVIEW: Sophie’s Turn – Nicky Wells
(self-published e-book 2011) Sophie is a journalist, more-or-less happily engaged to Tim, an accountant, when she meets up with members of the former rock band Tusk. In her late teens, we discover, Sophie had had a huge crush on the … Continue reading
The Pinhoe Egg – Diana Wynne Jones
(HarperCollins 2006) This is one of my favourite books by one of my favourite writers, and it’s one I chose to re-read recently as a sort of memorial to Diana Wynne Jones, who died in March. The book will make … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy, Fiction, Re-read, Reviews
Tagged Chrestomanci, Diana Wynne Jones, domestic use of magic, griffins, growing up, horses, imprisonment, inventions, magic, misuse of magic
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To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
(Oxford World Classics 2008, first published 1927) I’d never read anything by Virginia Woolf before Nymeth’s review of To the Lighthouse inspired me to seek it out (I have a copy of Orlando which I’d tried reading some years ago, … Continue reading
Posted in 2011 New Reads, Feminism, Fiction, Reviews
Tagged art, experimental prose, friendship, growing up, landscape, marriage, multiple points of view, Skye, transition, Virginia Woolf
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Microserfs – Douglas Coupland
(Flamingo 1995) This book was regarded as ‘About as zeitgeisty as it gets’ in a review on the front cover: upon reading it in 2010, the reader can see that it has lost its immediate cultural significance, but its general … Continue reading
Posted in 2010 New Reads, Fiction, Humour, Reviews
Tagged 1990s fiction, California, Douglas Coupland, geeks, growing up, indestructible lucite ship-it awards, life changes, love, Microsoft, technology
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