by cols61 | Jan 24, 2017 | US Fiction
THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN BY GARTH STEIN ……..I’d expected to be challenged in reading this book, by what Samuel Taylor Coleridge named “the willing suspension of disbelief”, because one of the two main characters in the book is Enzo,...
by cols61 | Jul 31, 2016 | Reading, US Fiction
Patrick Shaw-Stewart’s First World War poem ‘I Saw A Man This Morning’ not only compares the First World War to those mythical Greek battles, it is also an example of how those myths have continued to influence literature over many years....
by cols61 | Jul 28, 2016 | Reading, US Fiction
The Catcher In The Awry! The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach ………I first heard of Chad Harbach’s book when he was interviewed on Simon Mayo on Radio 5 (though I can’t recall if I heard it or my partner heard it and told me!). Either way I...
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