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2011 IN REVIEW : BOOKS

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December 29, 2011

Cover image of Retromania - my favourite book of 2011.

This was the year when Tory minister Michael Gove pronounced that, from the age of 11 up, we should read at least 50 books a year. I only managed to read about 40 this year – does that make me a dumbass?

These are the best books I read this year, needless to say, not all were published in 2011 and I wrote blog posts about them all:

Best fiction :

A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

Point Omega by Don DeLillo

One Day by David Nicholls

Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell

The Hunger Games (parts one + two) by Suzanne Collins Continue reading →

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ONE DAY: TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS

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March 4, 2011

‘One Day’ – a novel by David Nicholls (2009)

“The Polaroids that hold us together
Will surely fade away,
Like the love we spoke of forever on St Swithin’s Day” – Billy Bragg.

one dayOne Day is the kind of book you want to press into the hands of all your friends and say ‘you must read this’.

It may not be a life changing book, but it is a life defining book. It will help (although is by no means essential) if you happen to have been born in the UK between say 1950 – 1970 .

The novel spans a twenty year period and centres on the highs and lows in the lives of Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew from their early twenties to middle age. The story begins in 1988 when they meet on the night of their graduation in Edinburgh.

Each chapter is set in a different year but it is always the same day – 15th July, St Swithin’s Day. This is a day which ,according to tradition, dictates what the weather will be like for the next 40 days. Continue reading →

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