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Bookish old ladies

Olive, Again : Elizabeth Strout

I only read Olive Kitteridge earlier this year and had to allow a little time to pass before I read the next book where she is the protagonist, Olive, Again; for Olive is strong meat, and here she is tackling old age head on.

Andrew Miller: The Slowworm’s Song

[The past] cannot be made less and it cannot be made safe and it cannot be hidden and it cannot be forgotten.

Autumn

For those of you in the Northern hemisphere here is a little poem I wrote some years ago.

My life is different now, but these images stay with me.

The Rat

Painting Time : Maylis de Keregal

Maylis de Kerangal is a French author and Painting Time is her fourth book. She has a particular approach to novel writing in that she takes a topic, bridge building, in Birth of a Bridge, heart transplant/organ donation in the case of Mend the Living (now called The Heart in English) and the world of the cuisineur in The Cook and does exhaustive research into the subject. She then interweaves this into the personal lives of her characters .