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    Top 5 Novels Written In The Last Decade..

    in General Book Discussions

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    I've been thinking about this for a while, because it was really hard, and came up with these:

     

    Atonement by Ian McEwan (film's pretty damn good too)

    The Turning by Tim Winton

    The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard

    Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky

    Life of Pi by Yann Martel

     

     

    If I had read Atonement at the time I posted my favourite 5 books, then I would have definitely included it.

     

    I don

    Rennie's 2007 Book List

    in Past Book Logs

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    Despite having had The Sea by John Banville on my shelf for over a year now I was putting off reading it because I had heard some negative reviews. However I loved this book. It is beautifully written and very descriptive. I felt bereft when I finished it.

     

    Since reading The Sea I have also read On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. This was another really good read. It is the first McEwan that I have read but I will be looking for more shortly.

     

    I have also had The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood on my shelf for a while. I gave it a read on holiday and thoroughly enjoyed it.

     

    I managed to get a copy of Atonement by Ian McEwan. I wanted to read it before I see the film. This was a wonderful book. Definitely one of the best books I have read this year.

     

     

     

    I also managed to squeeze in The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd while away. This is a good easy read and interesting too.

     

    I am not quite sure what I will read next. I am ploughing my way through the 1400 posts that have appeared on this forum since I departed just over a week ago. That will keep me busy for a while I reckon.:welcomeboard:

    Rennie's 2007 Book List

    in Past Book Logs

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    Well that is Exodus finished and I am glad I made it to the end of this book. It started off quite well telling the harrowing story of several different Jewish families and how they came to be on their way to Palestine. In my opinion however, later on the book got bogged down in historic detail and it seemed that Uris could not quite make up his mind whether he was writing a novel or a textbook. I know that this book was a bestseller when it was published but I am afraid it was not for me.

     

    My next book will be Arthur and George by Julian Barnes

     

    Blurb

     

    Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late-ninetieth-century Britain. Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, then a writer, George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while George remains in hard working obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events, which made sensational headlines at the time as The Great Wyrley Outrages.

    Rennie's 2007 Book List

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    A Spot of Bother was a very entertaining book. For me it was one of these books that keep you reading with no effort and before you know where you are you have reached the end. Very funny.

     

    I am now starting on Exodus by Leon Uris

     

    Blurb

     

    Exodus is an extraordinary novel of one of the twentieth century

    Rennie's 2007 Book List

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    I have finished In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar

     

    I am not sure about this book. I could not take to Suleiman so perhaps that has coloured my opinion. I wanted to know more about Libya but in the end felt a bit dissatisfied.

     

     

    I am starting A Spot of Bother by Mark Hadden.

     

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    George Hall doesn

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