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Sep 14, 20202 min read
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
1966, Random House This brilliantly written fictionalized version of the 1831 massacre of more than 50 whites by a group of slaves in...
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kelliebooksblog
Jun 1, 20202 min read
Anita Brookner Books
A Start in Life (1981), Providence (1982), A Misalliance (1987), Jonathan Cape Ltd Anita Brookner books are a rather odd mix of...
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kelliebooksblog
Jan 20, 20201 min read
The Scapegoat by Daphne Du Maurier
First published 1957, Victor Gollancz Ltd This thriller is a story of stolen identity between an Englishman and Frenchman, John and ...
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kelliebooksblog
Oct 22, 20191 min read
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
Faber & Faber Ltd, UK 2018 HarperCollins Publishers, USA 2018 The first chapter of this book is called "Falling House"; I read just over...
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kelliebooksblog
Oct 7, 20192 min read
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Bright White Light, LLC, 2008 In earlier posts I admitted my aversion to dialogue between animals and humans; however, I don't take issue...
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kelliebooksblog
Sep 30, 20192 min read
Cannibale by Didier Daeninckx
Gallimard, Editions Verdier, 1998 My daughter Julia recommended this short book, after reading it for a class. In 1931, natives of the...
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kelliebooksblog
Sep 25, 20192 min read
The Journey Home and Other Stories by Malachi Whitaker
Persephone Books, 2017 The stories in The Journey Home and Other Stories are from the following collections : Frost in April (1929) No...
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kelliebooksblog
Sep 4, 20195 min read
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
1929 Little, Brown and Company First published Im Westen Nichts Neues, 1928, Ullstein A.G. Due to some serious lack in my schooling or...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 14, 20192 min read
Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu by Honoré de Balzac
Attention every art student or anyone who has ever had difficulty expressing an idea artistically. Read this short story. I bought it at...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 14, 20191 min read
Seventeen by Kenzabuo Oé
Editions Gallimard 2015 (French translation) I read the French version of this short story which I happened upon at my friend Becky’s...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 14, 20191 min read
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami, 2003 English Translation Vintage, 2005 This book, picked up along with Oé’s short story Seventeen from my friend and...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 8, 20191 min read
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Jonathan Cape (UK), Knopf (US), 2011 Engrossing story and characters. My bookclub read this and none of us could figure out why the...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 8, 20191 min read
Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
Jonathan Cape, 2005 Intriguing historical fiction centered around a court case involving Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and a lawyer named George...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 8, 20191 min read
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015 Hilarious satire on current racial conditions in the USA. The main character is on trial in front of the...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 8, 20191 min read
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Random House 1952 "In a letter to (Richard) Wright August 18, 1945, Ellison poured out his anger toward (Communist) party leaders for...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 8, 20191 min read
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Secker and Warburg, 1959 A beautiful and heart breaking story of the friendship between two high school boys. Jealous of his best...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 8, 20191 min read
Mara & Dann by Doris Lessing
Flamingo, 1999 Didn’t finish. Science fiction, found boring. Will soon post some of Lessing's works I find brilliant.
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 8, 20191 min read
The Summer Before the Dark by Doris Lessing
Alfred A. Knopf, 1973 Not motivating, hard to finish.
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 8, 20191 min read
The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing
Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1985 Good.
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 8, 20191 min read
Ben in the World by Doris Lessing
Flamingo, 2000 Seems slapped together, parts poorly written. But it could be my brain which is slapped together! Ben in the World is the...
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