[ebooktalk] Re: Rosamund Lupton.
- From: Ian Macrae <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
- To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:20:38 +0100
Hi elanie, I'm sure I'll go back to the book, but the cook in question was the
one who was fired when the big cheese family fled the village.
On 10 Jun 2013, at 19:38, Elaine Harris (Rivendell) wrote:
> Ian, I can understand your doubts with Geraldine brooks’ Anna but since the
> narrator – by the end of the book and the perspective from which she is
> telling the story – is no mere seventeenth-century cook. Her education grows
> along with the book.
>
> For the record, Geraldine Brooks is Australian, started out as a reporter and
> her first book was non-fiction on Moslem women, married to Anthony (Tony)
> Horrowitz; not sure if he is English but is well-known for his children’s
> fiction (which I have not read) and they live in America though I think spend
> a fair amount of time in the UK.
>
> I loved the language; to me that was part of the thrill of the book; many of
> the words I think you would find only in a mediaeval dictionary.
>
> However, only you can know if a book is for you.
>
> Take care,
>
> Elaine
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> From: ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Ian Macrae
> Sent: Tuesday, 11 June 2013 3:25 AM
> To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Rosamund Lupton.
>
> Anyone care to outline what kind of fiction she writes? I must confess to be
> still struggling rather with Geraldine Brooks. Part of it is language. I
> don't believe any cook in the 17th century would ever have said, :I now the
> heft of every knife in this kitchen". It's a bit like those female American
> writers of historical fiction who think they create the language of the 15th
> century by inserting the word "Do" before every active verb.
> On 10 Jun 2013, at 17:54, Shell wrote:
>
>
> I think you might enjoy Sister David, though you do have to be on top of
> things at the end as Steve says. I think it's much more up your street
> though.
> Shell.
>
>
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> From: "David Russell" <david.russell8@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 3:58 PM
> To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Rosamund Lupton.
>
> > I read "Afterwards" and really struggled with it for many reasons. It would
> > take a good deal of persuasion for me to try reading Lupton again.
> >
> >
> > David
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of Clare Gailans
> > Sent: 10 June 2013 12:03
> > To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Rosamund Lupton.
> >
> > Trish, I have Sister and will try it now as you say it is so much better. I
> > thought all the out-of-body business in Afterwrds spoilt what was otherwise
> > a good book. Clare
> >
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