Reviews

‘One of those rare gems that comes to the reviewer out of the blue . . . enough twists to shame a cobra . . . the story fairly rips along, defying the reader to put the book down . . . Christine Poulson should be heralded as the fine entrant to the world of crime fiction she most certainly is.’ [Stage Fright]

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The Time of my Life

Posted on Mar 3, 2014 in Catcher in the Rye, Dickens, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, Proust. Jane Austen, rereading, Salinger, The Great Gatsby, The Hobbit, Tolstoy, Trollope, Wuthering Heights | 4 Comments

I don’t want to read Catcher in the Rye again – or Salinger’s short stories – though I was impressed by them when I was around twenty. Nor am I tempted to reread Wuthering Heights (though Jane Eyre is another matter). I won’t be returning to The Hobbit or Lord of the Rings or Mervyn […]

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I’ve never read Ulysses

Posted on Oct 12, 2010 in books one hasn't read, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, rereading, Susan Hill | No Comments

I’ve just read Susan Hill’s HOWARD’S END IS ON THE LANDING about the year she spent reading from her own collection of books. I enjoyed it and agreed with her about a lot. Like her I think that THE RECTOR’S DAUGHTER is a masterpiece. Like her I have a high regard for Trollope and Dickens […]

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