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Wednesday 1st January 2020

2000

The Mind’s Eye

Van Veeteren Book 1

Author : Hakan Nesser

Rated by rogerco, on 01 Jan 2020




Monday 30th December 2019

Summary :
Exploring beneath the ground as a way of exploring deep time

Reviewed by rogerco, on 30 Dec 2019

Review Summary :
Fabulous bit of personal nature/ecology writing

Review of "Underland"

a collection of personal accounts of guided explorations to underground places, their meanings and the authors responses, woven together into a narrative about our relationship to time and the world.




Saturday 30th November 2019

Summary :
Woman and her dog spend the winter in isolated cottage on Exmoor on the run from her demons

Reviewed by Roger, on 30 Nov 2019

Review of "The Living and The Dead in Winsford"

Very good read. In the first third you really get inside her head and build some empathy. In the middle third some questions start to arise - some of which are never fully resolved (the Polish hire car, the disappearing dog, the seer Mark Britton - and when it happens the twist at the end seemed a little arbitrary, but thinking about it it was the only possible ending and better than the alternatives.



Friday 1st November 2019

Summary :
Post deluvian life in a rump of the USA where fertility has collapsed and fertile women are ...

Reviewed by Roger, on 01 Nov 2019

Review of "The Handmaid's Tale"

I enjoyed it but not as much as its reputation suggested I should. I found the setting pretty unbelievable.



Tuesday 1st October 2019

2016

Hagseed

Author : Margaret Atwood

Summary :
Reworking of the Tempest (Shakespeare) through description of a workshop performance in a prison ...

Reviewed by Roger, on 01 Oct 2019

Review of "Hagseed"

Pretty good, and a neat way of exploring some of the themes of the tempest as real fictional life interacts with the play in production