[ebooktalk] Re: Alison's books.

  • From: "Trish Talbot" <trish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 22:41:52 +0100

Shell, we read "The Sisters Brothers" for our local book group, and I just 
couldn't get on with it.  It was just too cruel!
Trish.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Shell 
  To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 6:34 PM
  Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Alison's books.


  Hi Alison, 
  Garden of Evening Mist was the only one I read from last year's list that I 
actually enjoyed.  I think my favorite booker book of the last few years was 
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt. It's a western, but not like any I've 
read before. I'm not a fan of westerns but this one was so funny and strangely 
written I loved it.
  Shell.


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  From: "CJ & AA MAY" <chrisalis.may@xxxxxxxxxx>
  Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 4:00 PM
  To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Alison's books.

  > Hello Shell
  > 
  > I too like to read the short list and in fact read this year's winner,
  > Garden of Evening Mist, which I did thoroughly enjoy.
  > 
  > Alison
  > 
  > 
  > 
  > From: ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
  > On Behalf Of Shell
  > Sent: 03 June 2013 10:09
  > To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  > Subject: [ebooktalk] Alison's books.
  > 
  > 
  > 
  > Hi Alison,
  > 
  > I didn't enjoy Swimming Home by Deborah Levy either, but I finished it
  > because I had bought it.  I find with the Man Booker books that some years I
  > like most of them and other years I can't get along with hardly any. It must
  > be to do with the different judges.  I still look forward to the short list
  > every year though.
  > 
  > Hope you have some more inspirational books next month, sometimes reading
  > goes like that.
  > 
  > Shell.
  > 
  > 
  > 
  > 
  > 
  > --------------------------------------------------
  > From: "CJ & AA MAY" <chrisalis.may@xxxxxxxxxx>
  > Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 9:07 AM
  > To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  > Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Books I read in May.
  > 
  >> The books I read in May were:
  >> 
  >> 
  >> 
  >> Cat and Mouse by James Patterson; 
  >> 
  >> 
  >> 
  >> The Cashmere Shawl by Rosie Thomas; 
  >> 
  >> 
  >> 
  >> The Lighthouse   by Alison Moore; (Man Booker Runner-up)
  >> 
  >> 
  >> 
  >> The killing hour by Lisa Gardner; 
  >> 
  >> 
  >> 
  >> Swimming Home by Deborah Levy; (Man Booker Runner-up)
  >> 
  >> 
  >> 
  >> Resurrection men  by Ian Rankin;
  >> 
  >> 
  >> 
  >> The Husband by Dean Kootz;
  >> 
  >> 
  >> 
  >> A Question of Guilt by Frances Biffield;
  >> 
  >> 
  >> 
  >> The Warriors Princess by Barbara Erskine;
  >> 
  >> 
  >> 
  >> For me none of these books were particularly outstanding and I gave up on
  >> the two Man Booker Runner-ups. The Cashmere Shawl proved much better than
  >> its synopsis suggested, however, and gave an insight into life in Cashmere
  >> with some good descriptive narrative.
  >> 
  >> Alison
  >> 
  >> 
  >> 
  >>
  > 
  >

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