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When Will There be Good News?by: Kate Atkinson August 14, 2008 |
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A wonderful book by my favourite novelist. It has everything you could ask for. The only downside is the feeling of sadness that hits you when you reach the last page.
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Case Historiesby: Kate Atkinson August 02, 2006 |
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First Sentence: How lucky were they?
Ex-cop Jackson Brodie has three cases on which he is working. In 1970, Olivia, the youngest of three sisters disappears after she and another sister spent the night in their backyard tent. Their father has now died. When cleaning out his desk, the two middle sisters find Olivia's favorite toy. What happened to Olivia? In 1979, an overwhelmed wife and mother reaches the breaking point with disastrous results. Her sister wants Jackson to find Tanya, the niece she promised to care for. In 1997, a businessman's daughter was murdered during her first day of work in her fathers' author. Who killed her? Along with the three cases, Jackson has his own issues including ... Read More: >>More Details |
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One Good Turnby: Kate Atkinson December 16, 2006 |
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I've not read any Atkinson before, and I will only bother again because other reviews suggest this is not her best work. I'm afraid I gave up at Chapter 10 - and I rarely jettison a book once started. I did so for a number of reasons. Principally I wasn't remotely interested in any of the characters. They all seemed 'false' and cliched. It was the bloke suffering a heart attack in a hotel room with a call girl that really did it for me. This struck me as so hackneyed, so cliched that I simply couldn't be bothered to go on.
Early in the novel, there's mention of those soft focus, Sunday evening TV dramas which create a soothing but not quite believable world. I felt this novel was trying to do much the same thing. But I found it less soothing, ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Behind the Scenes at the Museumby: Kate Atkinson 1996 |
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I first read this book in 1996 after a lovely friend bought it for me, and I remember thinking what a good book it was. A couple of months ago this book was given to me as `this months book' at my local library reading group - by the bottom of page 1 I was absolutely hooked. I'd only remembered odd bits from over 10 years ago but after reading it a second time I think it will stick with me for a lifetime. It's very well written both in style and grammar and is packed full of all emotions possible. The storyline is written in a `double style', with Ruby (being the main character) being in present time and going back to her grand-parents in war-time. The two timelines meet up, in that the `older generation' are also included in Ruby's younger years. There's so ... Read More:
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Human Croquetby: Kate Atkinson March 07, 1998 |
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I enjoyed this book particularly the start and finish, although found that the middle section seemed to drag a little but couldn't really decide the reason.
The location and period setting at the beginning is very unusual for a novel and worked very well in the context of the rest of the book. I loved that, as the reader, I felt completely inside Isobel's head with all the little thoughts and worries that she has, along with the way that she deals with the time travelling events that seem to happen around her. Time is an important theme of the book and the jumping between Present and Past throughout the book gives support to Isobel's strange experiences of time travel. I enjoyed the technique of showing Eliza's speech in italics which ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Emotionally Weirdby: Kate Atkinson 2001 |
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Dundee is a weird place and this book has discovered the best (perhaps the only) way to write about it. Kate Atkinson catches the tone of the place in the way for example, she presents us with the two old Dundee wifies and her gift for suggesting accent and dialect while not excluding the foreign reader is superb. Dundee was my father's town and to an extent, mine and the book is a bit of a personal nostalgia binge and may indeed overdo as others have said the 'here is a bit of crap creative writing'. But for the playfulness and humour, I found my second reading even better than the first. It is a ghost story and reminds us that all our pasts are made up, our past lives largely imaginary with various versions created to suit different people and different times of our ... Read More:
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Not the End of the Worldby: Kate Atkinson August 02, 2006 |
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I am an ardent admirer of Kate Atkinson's work, but must confess to being a little reluctant to read a collection of short stories as I most love her ability to expand and deliver storylines form the smallest intrigue within her novels. I should not have been so reticent to read this work however as the stories beautifully collide with characters, themes and much more. Never before have I been lead to re-read a book immediately after finishing it the first time, but this I have done with Not the End of the World with great relish. Not only would I wholeheartedly reccommend this book to anyone but I have just bought copies for many friends and relations for Xmas!
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When Will There be Good News?by: Kate Atkinson March 26, 2009 |
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A wonderful book by my favourite novelist. It has everything you could ask for. The only downside is the feeling of sadness that hits you when you reach the last page.
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When Will There be Good News?by: Kate Atkinson November 06, 2008 |
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A wonderful book by my favourite novelist. It has everything you could ask for. The only downside is the feeling of sadness that hits you when you reach the last page.
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The Watsons (Hesperus Classics)by: Jane Austen, Kate Atkinson February 01, 2007 |
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I have copies of, I think, all of the easily-obtainable completed versions of The Watsons (by: L. Oulton 1923; Edith and Francis Brown 1928; John Coates 1958; "Another Lady" 1977; Joan Aiken 1996; and Merryn Williams 2005).
None of the versions I have read, really have the stature of any of the books completed by Jane Austen, but this version by Merryn Williams is about as good as they get. If I might make a plea, it is that you do not ignore the version by John Coates - if you can get a copy. As he (John Coates) observes of the earlier versions "But in other ways I find the other (earlier) books less satisfactory. One is the slight lack of Jane Austen's wit. Another is what I would call the tempo of the writing. The original fragment is a leisurely opening; it is the ... Read More: >>More Details |
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