tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500590946775347522.post2795180049967222078..comments2024-02-13T02:30:15.796+11:00Comments on Minerva Reads: Schedule ideas for 2014Sue Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11128625746717614768noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500590946775347522.post-12628550216604711642013-11-21T16:52:47.236+11:002013-11-21T16:52:47.236+11:00Posted by Deb on our Facebook page:
I've had ...Posted by Deb on our Facebook page: <br />I've had trouble posting on Minerva Reads and I'm tired so here are my comments on 2014 list.<br />The entire list is awesome and it would make for a perfect year of reading. <br />My only suggestion for the list would be the new Lloyd Jones - A History of Silence. I listened to him on Richard Fiedler when I was sick and the story sounds incredible. <br />Luminaries would have to be the Christmas read as it is over 800 pages. Every year I allocate a much anticipated read to a Boxing Day start and Luminaries is this year's.<br />Alex Miller's Coal Creek is very good and I'm half way through.Sue Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11128625746717614768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500590946775347522.post-12966874268901109722013-11-13T22:03:24.644+11:002013-11-13T22:03:24.644+11:00Thanks Marie --- Aminatta! That's it. I kept t...Thanks Marie --- Aminatta! That's it. I kept thinking Amrita. These are great additions to our list.Sue Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11128625746717614768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500590946775347522.post-68660788710630209442013-11-13T20:46:15.056+11:002013-11-13T20:46:15.056+11:00Some that I've thoroughly enjoyed lately:
Anyt...Some that I've thoroughly enjoyed lately:<br />Anything by Aminatta Forna but loved The Hired Man (set in modern Croatia with an English family renovating a house in a village previously affected by the recent war); and The Memory of Love (set in Sierra Leone, the birthplace of the author's father)<br />Also just finished The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling. Dark modern Britain - could be any Western country; deeply insightful. <br />As for a translation, The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson.<br />And thoroughly engrossed by Hannah Kent's Burial Rites.<br />Marie ZuvichMarie Zuvichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00714473194075524622noreply@blogger.com