What is the last book you read, and your rating?
- LessJuanita79+
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Re: What is the last book you read, and your rating?
sooo interesting...I am still in the process of reading. He started
working for a newspaper at age 10 - doing typesetting...and it
evolved into a career. He has convinced me that the writings of
Shakespeare were really done by Francis Bacon.
I give it a 4 out of 5 rating.
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I'd recommend it to anyone who loves a good historical read. 5/5
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Hi Fran. Havent been on here for some time so I thought I should make an appearnce just to show Im still alive and kicking. I read the Graveyard Book a while back, its quite good more for young adults but you should enjoy it. I havent read much lately, I listened to an audio book not long ago, A Short History Of The Civil War by Bruce Catton. Without going into a lot of detail, it gives a fairly complete account of the war, the politics,the powers that were, how inept and stupid and how savvy some of them were. A great book if youre into history and that sort of thing.
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I absolutely loved it. It's a story of love passion mystery adventure.
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Published in 1980 and shortlisted for the Man Booker, it relates events in the early 1920s, in the direct aftermath of WWI.
Tom Birkin, physically and psychologically damaged in action at Passchendaele, comes to the village of Oxgodby to undertake the task of revealing and restoring a covered painting on the wall of the local church. Another damaged survivor of the war, Charles Moon, is similarly employed, under the terms of a will, to find the buried remains of a village ancestor.
The two become friends and confidants, up to a point, and Birkin especially is embraced by the locals, particularly the Ellerbeck family (the stationmaster) and Alice Keach, the beautiful wife of the local Vicar, the Rev. J G Keach. Birkin is even conscripted to umpire the local village cricket.
In this sparse novella, Carr has been able to capture the character and spirit of Oxgodsby and the idyllic and yet stifling nature of rural village life, tell a story about the hellish nature of war and its damaging consequences, and create a set of characters that are fascinating and fleshed out to a degree that many much longer works fail to achieve.
This is a fine and very engaging piece of writing that can be savoured over just a few sittings. 4 stars out of 5
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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I give it a 100% because I love how it makes me feel like the character in the story.
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I have read many of Nora Roberts books but this series is by far the best.
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3 out of 5
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That sounds an intriguing read. Not normally something I would pick up, but because it sounds very smilar to what happened to my own great grandfather in the Boer War (1899-1902), convalescing in England, I might give it a go.Redlegs wrote: ↑05 Feb 2018, 20:10 A novel doesn't need to be lengthy to relate a good story, to have something interesting and important to say or to draw great characters. And so it is with J L Carr's A Month In the Country, which is a mere 93 pages in length.
Published in 1980 and shortlisted for the Man Booker, it relates events in the early 1920s, in the direct aftermath of WWI.
Tom Birkin, physically and psychologically damaged in action at Passchendaele, comes to the village of Oxgodby to undertake the task of revealing and restoring a covered painting on the wall of the local church. Another damaged survivor of the war, Charles Moon, is similarly employed, under the terms of a will, to find the buried remains of a village ancestor.
The two become friends and confidants, up to a point, and Birkin especially is embraced by the locals, particularly the Ellerbeck family (the stationmaster) and Alice Keach, the beautiful wife of the local Vicar, the Rev. J G Keach. Birkin is even conscripted to umpire the local village cricket.
In this sparse novella, Carr has been able to capture the character and spirit of Oxgodsby and the idyllic and yet stifling nature of rural village life, tell a story about the hellish nature of war and its damaging consequences, and create a set of characters that are fascinating and fleshed out to a degree that many much longer works fail to achieve.
This is a fine and very engaging piece of writing that can be savoured over just a few sittings. 4 stars out of 5
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Not a perfect 4/4 because I felt the events of one storyline were kind of at odds with the main character's personality.