I like the stuff about memory here...
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I liked the bits where she looks at photos of her past.
Progress was the bright horizon of every existence. It signified well-being, healthy children, glowing houses, well-lit streets, and knowledge.... In reality cramped housing forced children and parents brothers and sisters to sleep in the same room.... The times, people said, are not the same for everyone.
Travelling to Japan with my book. I quite fancy a toilet with sound effects.
Terrible pictures involving PowerPoint...
I'm sure the book event will be better than my photography skills.
I have read a few prison memoirs by writers jailed for political reasons, but this feels more painful as he is still in jail.
Hoping this should cover most shopping needs.
pick...I feel sorry for anyone who can't live here.
New in...
How the hell is lighting a fire supposed to tell your ancestors that this is your house? You mean to tell me that someone who's reached enlightenment as a Buddha needs a fire to tell them where to come back to?
Reading with coffee.
I really like how the author twists the 'traditional' in format and presentation.
I was reading this in a bookshop, and had to put it down to catch a train.
Before I finished it.
Sadness.
In our first couple of months in Berlin, Gina and I had walked these back streets that led away from Kurfürstendam and on and on and narrower and narrower to the front windows of artisans‘ workshops and soup kitchens and Blumen stores and family homes with children and parents seated at the table eating dinner.
pickHeroine goes looking for a runaway in off the grid desert communities.
Last week I went to see this amazing exhibition of Rennie Mackintosh and collaborators (still on st the Walker, Liverpool). Just finished this great fictional look at the Mackintoshs' time in Suffolk during WW1.
Well, I wasn't expecting that.
#womensprize #shortlist
New one for me!
Gorgeous exhibit: I bought the catalogue (but it's not on the system yet).
Creepy crime: she sees dead people. Which is unfortunate for the criminals, given that she's the prosecutor.
"...it is easier for many of us to imagine the end of the world than it is for us to imagine the end of capitalism."
Not the tagged book, but about the same impressive sounding bookshop. Wish I could just go for the day to exhibition at the U of Pennsylvania library!
I loved Spring - almost as much as Autumn - this is from the review in the TLS (April 19)
pickThought this was a marvellous book. Adair's life is changed completely when a Union militia take her father prisoner. She faces terrible hardship but is never less than a compelling character in near apocalyptic times.
pickI thought this quote summed up the book's main argument. Hard to believe that people got away with this for so long, including threatening those who were willing to speak out.
"Unbeknownst to me, the lead investor was Rupert Murdoch..."
Dark reading about murky business practice: but I have been out and about enjoying the sunshine, so it balances out!
This is only the second book by Jiles I've come across. I want to read everything she's written now...
The board was full of influential figures: surely it couldn't be a scam?
This book is just bizarre. If it was fiction, I'd think it was improbable!
Yikes, this reads like a thriller but it's an account of the Theramos start-up scandal.
New book from #Pereine the amazing small translation publishers. Love book mail!
pickI don't envy the judges picking a shortlist for this years women's prize: another great read. Painful but gripping.
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