“It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk…”
Book Review: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live…”
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Book Review: Hemingway Adventure
Michael Palin goes in search of Ernest Hemingway…
Book Review: Hard Times
‘There is a wisdom of the head, and… there is a wisdom of the heart.’
Book Review: Grief Is The Thing With Feathers
‘You sound like a fridge magnet…’
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Book Review: Good Wives
“You can go through the world with your elbows out and your nose in the air, and call it independence, if you like. That’s not my way…”
Book Review: Dubliners
“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe…”
Book Review: Dracula
‘Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings…’
Book Review: Down And Out In Paris And London
‘It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs – and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety…’
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Book Review: Child of God
‘You think people was meaner then than they are now? the deputy said. The old man was looking out at the flooded town. No, he said. I don’t. I think people are the same from the day God first made one…’
