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Boulez on Conducting by Pierre Boulez (James’s book 18, 2008)
My reading seems to be following my concert-going fairly closely at the moment. After hearing Barenboim, the following day I...
 
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Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose (Shane’s book 32, 2008)
The subtitle of this book, A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them, neatly summarises what...
 
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Cathy’s Book 19: Shopaholic Abroad by Sophie Kinsella
OK, I’m not proud. On holiday on a friend’s yacht in the Med, I was feeling somewhat superior in the face of said...
 
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Cathy’s Book 15: What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
I spent most of the morning finishing this extraordinary three-part novel and most of the afternoon thinking about it - its...
 
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The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon (Shane’s book 17, 2008)
Michael Chabon has described this novel as an homage to the hard-boiled detective fiction of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell...
 
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A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon (Ann’s book 3 of 2008)
The opening chapters of A Spot of Bother set up a plot that could compete with the most dramatic soap opera. George Hall is...