Sunday 5 July 2009
Sunday 5 July 2009
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As time appears to slow down, the summer months are the perfect opportunity to read the books you seem to pick up but never get to finish. The call went out through our forums for the ideal summer reading. Here are some of your suggestions...Tracey Chevalier’s “The Lady and the Unicorn”
"A pleasant book, really a charming and enjoyable novel (Chevalier is the author of “The Girl With The Pearl Earring”). It's about the making of the splendid set of fifteenth century Flemish tapestries of the same name in the Musée du Moyen Age (Hôtel Cluny) in Paris. And, of course, of the coming of age (and erotic adventures) of the protagonist... Brill!"
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"Another book I like is “The Island at the Center of the World” by Russell Shorto. It's non-fiction but gives a wealth of details about Dutch Manhattan and the forgotten colony that did more to shape America than the Pilgrim Fathers."
Emilio416
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Dave Eggers’ “What is the What”
"I would recommend this book. Here is an excerpt from the book’s preface.
'I was just a young boy when the twenty-two-year civil war began that pitted Sudan’s government against the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army. As a helpless human, I survived by trekking across many punishing landscapes while being bombed by Sudanese air forces, while dodging land mines, while being preyed upon by wild beasts and human killers. I fed on unknown fruits, vegetables, leaves and sometimes went with nothing for days. At many points, the difficulty was unbearable.'
It honestly had me crying on the train, at the tram stop, everywhere and anywhere... I couldn't help it! "
‘anonymous’
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