Bii's Books
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memoirs
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Friday, 29 May 2015
Trying to Keep Still by Jenny Diski
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I had just started my latest attempt at book writing, limiting my reading and blogging to one book a week, when I picked up this book by Je...
Sunday, 3 May 2015
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald (translator: Michael Hulse)
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There are many kinds of books you can encounter in a lifetime. There are books which are soulful and full of grace. Books that are like a s...
Wednesday, 7 January 2015
Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal by Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson is a writer who openly plumbs her own history in her work, famously so in her debut novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit...
Sunday, 7 December 2014
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
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“There’s a gazillion reservations against this book,” the nice man from the library told me as he handed the most beautiful hardback into m...
Saturday, 22 November 2014
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
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“At which point, at long last, there was the actual doing it, quickly followed by the grim realisation of what it meant to do it, followed ...
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