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Dragonsblood

This is the first novel set in the Pern world of Dragons by an author other than Anne McCaffrey. I love this world. I found it when searching for Christmas presents…

The author is Anne’s son Todd, whom she has collaborated on two Pern novels before.

It is set between times. At the end of the first pass and at the start of the third. In the future a disease is affecting the dragons of Pern so that they die within three weeks.

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I enjoyed it. Staying up into the wee smalls to read it curled up on a soft cozy sofa in a log cabin with the fire crackling before me. I think Todd captures the world well and progresses the storyline. Wind Blossom’s photophobic watchwhers are explained for instance.

And yes, I will be looking out for the next one.

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Floodtide

Another saga by Judy Nunn – probably better known for her role on the Aussie soap “Home and Away”, of which, I confess, I am not a fan.

Her books are long and rambling and set in Australia, and that is why I picked this one up. That, and it landed on my desk as a review copy just before a 17 hour flight. In fact, this one is set in Western Australia and covers the period of WA Inc so it held a certain reminiscent appeal.
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This is not high literature, but it is moderately entertaining if slightly unbelievable. The Mayjay bit??

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The Declaration

The Declaration by Gemma Malley.

I was attracted to this novel for teenagers when browsing the shelves for a new author for my kids. I love young adult/teenage fiction and at my son’s age would have devoured this book just as I did yesterday while getting my hair done.

It’s set in the future – 2140. Longevity drugs have been discovered and people don’t die anymore. The world is a very different place. Crime has dropped. Life is very conservative. Decisions take a long time to make because everyone has so much time. Because no one dies the world soon became overcrowded and so countries banded together and signed a declaration that while people took the drugs they couldn’t have kids.

So there are very few young people around. And while the longevity drugs keep you youthful – it can’t stop the effects of gravity and so the undergarments people wear are more like scaffolding… (come back for my next post – more on this).

But “mistakes” are still made. And there are some people who still have kids. These children are called surpluses and are “caught” and sent to Surplus Halls where they learn to be servants – while being brainwashed that they have no rights and are a drain on society.

I loved the concept of this book – an extension of our own over-populated world – energy poor with people living longer. In a way it reminded me a little of Children of Men by PD James – what happens to a civilisation when there are no children?

The story itself revolves around Anna – a surplus – and how her world gets turned upside down when she meets Peter, who brings her news of the world outside the Surplus Hall.
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This is Gemma Malley’s first young adult novel. She paints an interesting world and I think the series (I presume it will become one) will develop.

If your kids liked John Marsden’s Tomorrow series – I think they will enjoy this book. What? They haven’t read the Tomorrow series…?

Guardian review
Bookwyrm Chrysalis Review
Gemma interview

And the best thing is that I’ve learned a new word. How did I get to this age without knowing what a dystopian novel is? I have certainly read a lot of them – in fact they are one of my favourite genres!

A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- and τόπος, alternatively, cacotopia,[1] kakotopia or anti-utopia) is a fictional society that is the antithesis of utopia. A dystopic society is characterised by negative traits the author chooses to illustrate, such as poverty, dictatorship, violence, and/or pollution. [Wikipedia]

Gemma makes a good point in her list of favourite dystopian novels for young adults – they can be true stories. The Diary of Anna Frank for example…

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Bad Luck and Trouble

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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

First of all – this Pulitzer Prize winning novel (2001) by Michael Chabon has its own website. You can read lots of interview and reviews there if you’re so inclined.

Briefly, the book is the story of a partnership between two cousins – one who is an escape artist and brilliant comic book illustrator and the other who writes fantastic stories. It is just before World War 2 and Kavalier escapes from Prague to New York – on his first night he is bundled into Clay’s bedroom by Clay’s mother and the relationship begins.

Together they create The Escapist, among a great many others, and try to engineer the escape of the rest of his family from Europe.
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It’s a long read but a very satisfying one. On the cover Tom Payne from the Daily Telegraph is quoted saying:

Perfection. There are perhaps four other books I’ve loved this much, and none that has made me cry more.

I didn’t find it particularly heart-wrenching. Nor is it in my top ten reads but it is an interesting idea and well written. Have you read it? What did you think?

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106 Books

I found this list on Sheep’s Clothing and thought I’d have a go – you might like to as well.

These are the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing‘s users. Bold what you have read, italicise that you started but couldn’t finish, and strike through what you couldn’t stand. Add an asterisk* to those you’ve read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and punishment
Catch-22
One hundred years of solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi: a novel
The name of the rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice*****
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveller’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma**
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
Atlas shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha*
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury tales
The historian : a novel
A portrait of the artist as a young man
Love in the time of cholera
Brave new world
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A clockwork orange
Anansi boys
The once and future king
The grapes of wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & demons
The inferno
The satanic verses
Sense and sensibility**
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One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
To the lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s travels
Les miserables
The corrections
The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Dune
The prince
The sound and the fury
Angela’s ashes : a memoir
The god of small things
A people’s history of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A confederacy of dunces
A short history of nearly everything
Dubliners
The unbearable lightness of being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an Inquiry into Values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit*
In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The three musketeers

You’ll note there are a few on the list that I’ve not been able to finish. I’ve learned from my younger more idealistic days that life is too short to plough through a novel to the bitter end if you’re really not enjoying it.

Interestingly there are not too many on the list I want to read… and Wuthering Heights I’ve been thinking about lately because I’ve just discovered what the lyrics say…

Heathcliff, its me–cathy.
Come home. Im so cold!
Let me in-a-your window.

Not, as I have thought since I first heard it all those years ago in 1978…

“It’s me I’m Cathy I’ve come home- oh woe wo-oh oh – not the antidote!”

Where did that come from?

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Skin and Bone by Kathryn Fox

Oh how I wish I was referring to my current size but no, this is Kathryn Fox’s latest murder novel which I have just read. It is part of the Big Book Club.

The story is about Detective Kate Farrer. She returns to work after being off sick seemingly after being tortured by some toerag – details perhaps in an earlier novel. Her new partner Oliver seems inexperienced, yet intelligent and keen and her first week takes her to the scene of a house fire where some unfortunate woman has perished. Almost as soon as she is assigned this case, she’s pulled off it to investigate the disappearance of a wealthy man’s daughter… and it appears the homicide unit is under surveillence – just for some added spice.

Kate reminds me of Barbara Havers from Elizabeth George’s Inspector Lynley series (a great series). She is work focussed, unkempt, slovenly at home and yet a great solid detective.
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The cover bills Kathryn Fox as better than Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs. I’m not so sure. Certainly it is close. I didn’t get the level of science I get in a Reichs novel, nor the amount of character development that I get in Cornwell.

I think this is like Elizabeth George lite. An enjoyable read set in Australia (which I enjoyed being the parochial soul that I am). An author to watch.

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A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khalid Housseini’s novel to follow The Kite Runner is also set in Afghanistan and traces the period from the Soviet invasion through to the rise and fall of the Taliban. He grew up in Afghanistan but now lives in California – since about 1980 – so plainly didn’t experience this first hand. He is now doing some aid work.

I found this book interesting for a couple of reasons – the story itself is charming – love story, overcoming incredible odds, that sort of thing – but also the story of Afghanistan is so interesting itself. We talk glibly about how they have been torn apart by wars for years but this book brought it home.

I remember meeting a woman from Kabul in 2002, I was doing a series on Muslim women in Perth and how their lives had changed post 2001. They came from all walks of life – Malaysian upper-class, Western women who had converted, women from Saudi Arabia, and other Arab states, women who wore veils, women who didn’t – it was a very eye-opening series for me – anyway I remember chatting to this lady who had gone to university in Afghanistan and she described Kabul as this very cosmopolitan, vibrant city; women who worked, beautiful gardens and public buildings. A far cry from the grey, bombed out, dusty city we see in news bulletins today. From the oppressive regime of the Taliban, where women were not allowed to work, or go to school, or even walk the streets without a male relative escort.
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It’s not a hard read, although the images are sometimes graphic. I read it in about two nights so certainly hard to put down.

I agree with the Guardian reviewer about his view of Afghanistan – he certainly doesn’t challenge the western view and he is full of hope about it’s future.

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Miss Webster and Cherif

This book by Patricia Duncker was a gift from The Poshi for my birthday. It’s a story of lonliness and friendship, of old age and youth.  I enjoyed it.

In many ways I thought it was a bit like Of Mice and Men – bear with me… it’s probably a long bow.

Here she is, this old woman, an ex-teacher pushed out of the school into retirement, alone. She breaks down and finds herself after a long recovery in Northern Africa where she is completely out of her comfort zone.

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What they give each other is the friendship of equals and it is not until the end of the book that they realise how important that friendship – much more than a landlady and lodger – is.

An interview with Patricia Duncker.

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