Archive for October, 2008
Posted in October 27th, 2008
Don’t forget everyone ~ in the November Meeting, we are setting aside some time for each of us to suggest and promote a book of our choice for inclusion in the list for 2009.
PLEASE come prepared!
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Posted in October 27th, 2008
Review by Charles Wyrick
Years ago a friend of mine described a peculiar sensation he had while reading a book that he didn’t like. He felt that he was being watched, that the author was continually peeking around a corner in order to make himself known. This image he created of the overbearing writer stuck. It […]
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Posted in October 27th, 2008
‘Great Apes:’ Life Among Randy Apes Can Be Tough on a Guy By MICHIKO KAKUTANIBooks of the Times
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Will Self is the Dennis Rodman of contemporary fiction.
Like Rodman, he has made a name for himself by specializing in willfully self-conscious outrage and by flirting […]
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Posted in October 27th, 2008
The Ape Who Mistook Himself for a Man By GARY KRIST Read the First Chapter | Read Michiko Kakutani’s review of “Great Apes” (September 12, 1997)
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More on Will Self from The New York Times Archives ——————————————————————————–
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r. Zack Busner — distinguished clinical psychologist, maverick neuropharmacologist, noted […]
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Posted in October 27th, 2008
Will Self has always had an ambivalent relationship with the novel. He doesn’t write about character and admits that he finds plot ‘boring’, as a result his novels usually work off a single comic device or absurd concept, stretched to the limit through a vast vocabularly, endless metaphors and a scatological humour. Self’s is a […]
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Posted in October 27th, 2008
Sean McManus’s BlogBook review: A piano in the Pyrenees by Tony Hawks21 June 2006
After lugging a fridge around Ireland, chasing Moldovan footballers to challenge them to play tennis, and increasingly desperate attempts to have a hit single, life’s slowed down a bit for Tony Hawks. His latest book ‘A Piano in the Pyrenees’ tells the […]
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Posted in October 27th, 2008
Posted in October 26th, 2008
For anyone wanting to discover more about Will Self [Author of Great Apes] please click on the following link:
http://www.will-self.com/
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Posted in October 2nd, 2008
Halifax And Nationwide House Fall Graph - House Price Crash forum
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Posted in October 2nd, 2008
Halifax And Nationwide House Fall Graph - House Price Crash forum
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Posted in October 2nd, 2008
Not sure if this is a repost. I don’t really care either. Just enjoy the fall.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7647251.stm
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Posted in October 2nd, 2008
Why even mortgage brokers are struggling to find mortgages for their clients…
A massive two-thirds of brokers have been unable to source a mortgage for clients in the past two months, according to the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association. This surprising statistic highlights just how difficult it is to secure mortgage finance for many borrowers, with […]
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Posted in October 2nd, 2008
House price fall biggest in 17 yearsBy Christina Fincher
LONDON (Reuters) - House prices fell 1.7 percent in the month of September to post their biggest annual drop since comparable records began in 1991, the Nationwide building society said on Thursday.
Interest rate futures rallied as investors speculated the figures increased the chance of an interest rate […]
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Posted in October 1st, 2008
Sunday, 11 March 2007Review: Grasshopper, by Barbara Vine
Personal Rating: 4/5
Having said I’m going away (which I have done) unfotunately I haven’t managed to stay away from the internet altogether, so here I am (but maybe for the last time this week - honest!Anyway, I seem to have gone from one Barbara to another with […]
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Posted in October 1st, 2008
Author Information: Barbara Vine
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Rating: Weighted - 7.36 / Average - 6.3 of 10 (3 votes)Comments: 0 (show them)Biography’s Source: Biography:
From the publisherBarbara Vine is a pseudonym for Ruth Rendell. Barbara Vine’s first novel, A Dark-Adapted Eye, won an Edgar Award, the highest honor of the Mystery Writers of America. […]
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Posted in October 1st, 2008
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This book is currently in the wild!
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Journal entry 1 by boucli from Toulouse, Midi-Pyrénées France on Wednesday, May 14, 2003
SynopsisBlamed by her parents for the tragic death of a friend, Clodagh has been banished from their home in the countryside to a dingy basement flat in the city. Her life is […]
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