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What I’m Reading : Episode 37, August 2021 – from Uganda to India and maybe Sri Lanka

August 25, 2021August 25, 2021 BookerTalk 18 Comments #20booksofsummer, African authors, Attia Hossain, Colm Toibin, Indian authors, Megha Majumdar

August has proved to be a bit of a juggling act. It’s the final month of #20booksofsummer but i got

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Six Degrees of Separation

Six Degrees: From How to Do Nothing to Americanah

August 4, 2020August 4, 2020 BookerTalk 14 Comments Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Colm Toibin, Emile Zola, Jenny Odell, Nicholas Carr, No Violet Bulawayo, Tim Harford

This month’s Six Degrees begins with a book whose title suggests it falls into the self-help category. Since I’m invariably

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World Literary Tour: Visit Ireland in 5 Books

March 17, 2020March 16, 2021 BookerTalk 27 Comments Anna Burns, Colm Toibin, Donal Ryan, Edna O'Brien, Irish authors, Irish literature, Lisa McInerney

It’s Reading Ireland month and though we’d normally be heading to the pub around no to celebrate St Patrick’s Day,

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From beauty myth to family jealousy in six steps

March 8, 2018 BookerTalk 5 Comments Arundhati Roy, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Colm Toibin, George Bernard Shaw, Henry James, Naomi Wolf, Neel Mukherjee, Six Degrees of Separation

What links The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf with Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady?

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Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

April 8, 2016August 4, 2020 BookerTalk 40 Comments Colm Toibin

Last year I made a comment in one blog post about how much I enjoyed Colm Toibin’s Norah Webster. More than

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