[ebooktalk] Re: Alison's books.

  • From: "Elaine Harris \(Rivendell\)" <elaineharris@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 13:09:25 +1000

Hello!

 

I don't know "Garden of Evening Mists" at all; can anyone enlighten me? What
an evocative title.

 

Thank you, and sorry for inadvertently repeating the information on "A
Parcel of Patterns".

 

Elaine

 

From: ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Shell
Sent: Tuesday, 4 June 2013 3:35 AM
To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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