Kazuo Ishiguro

                   

Weekly Singles Round-up : 1st September 2008

cdtimes.co.uk     04-Sep-2008          

Gym Class Heroes – Cookie Jar (FUELLEDBYRAMEN) Nice enough slab of commercial and melodic hip-hop gubbins. Hey, I’m not saying I like it … just doesn’t drive me to the usual level of homicidal rage. But then again, I’m...                    

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Plucked from obscurity

wiltshiretimes.co.uk     04-Sep-2008          

BACK after previous sell-out visits, Stacey Kent returns to the Theatre Royal Bath on Sunday, performing songs from her acclaimed album, Breakfast on the Morning Tram. The album, which has achieved gold status in both...                    

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Book Review: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

blogcritics.org     20-Aug-2008          

A book that explores the lives of people born not to live. It is a sensitive, ultimately credible dystopia. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro is a compelling portrait of people on the downside of a dystopia. Like Margaret...                    

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Britain's terror laws have left me and my family shattered

guardian.co.uk     18-Aug-2008   4 related          

I am innocent yet was detained without charge in solitary confinement for days on end. On May 14 I was arrested under section 41 of the Terrorism Act - on suspicion of the "instigation, preparation and commission of acts of...                    

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Book Recommendations

mattviews.wordpress.com     23-Jul-2008   1 related          

Today’s topic: Recommendations. Do you use LT’s recommendations feature? Have you found any good books by using it? Do you use the anti-recommendations, or the “special sauce” recommendations? How do you find out about books...                    

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No forcing books upon me!!

libdemblogs.co.uk     21-Jul-2008   6 related          

Along with Alix (who started it), Peter Black and Jo Anglezarke I have been rather taken with the Top 100 books meme. I have to admit, this is a bit of an indulgence for me as I have a tendency to be all hinterland and no front...                    

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Perfect!

thebookaholic.blogspot.com     18-Jul-2008   2 related          

Is there ever such a thing as a perfect novel?I enjoyed this piece on the Paper Cuts blog, but must confess I am of the same opinion as the commenter who contributes Randall Jarrell's definition : A novel is a prose narrative...                    

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Dignity in the Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

oodoc.com     17-Jul-2008          

The Remains of the Day has been written in 1989 by Kazuo Ishiguro, a Japanese author living in England. This novel is a first person narrative, whose main character is Mr Stevens, an English butler, who is retrospectively...                    

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The Big Read

vaughnblog.blogspot.com     15-Jul-2008   2 related          

Presbyterian Gal and Singing Owl have done it. All the cool kids are doing it. So I will too. Especially since I posted recently about the summer reading list for The Harpist, I guess it's only fair I own up to where I am...                    

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Midnight’s Children rides again but critics are baffled

hindu.com     15-Jul-2008          

That the book has won such an overwhelming mandate flies in the face of all assumptions about what people like to read. As a fully paid-up member of the Salman Rushdie fan club I am, of course, delighted at the latest triumph...                    

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