From Then to Now
I recently finished ‘The Best of Everything’ by Rona Jaffe; and I am currently reading ‘Alone in Berlin’ by Hans Fallada. Jaffe completed her novel in the late 50s and it is set in the early 60s; Fallada’s novel was published in 1947 and is set in 1940. No prizes for guessing where it’s set! … Continue reading
Society
A love of literature brings people together. It has certainly brought a couple of hundred people together who have chosen to study the English variety at my university. If you study the same subject as someone, you can talk to them relatively easily (relatively). A slight issue occurs when some people (i.e. me and two others) … Continue reading
A Brief Comment
Okay, so Midnight’s Children is pretty brilliant. In my first full day free after the end of my exams, all I’ve done is read and sleep (the excitement of dinner draws ever closer) and I kept reading until I could literally no longer stay awake. At four in the afternoon. If I weren’t going out tonight I … Continue reading
Free But Tied Down
Final exam done, first year of university is effectively finished. The thought is rather odd. Now I technically have nothing to do until September. I say technically because I have a lot of reading to do for next year (including some brick-like novels including Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children which I have read about 20 pages … Continue reading
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