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Franny and Zooey

J.D. Salinger

8.5 (4 Ratings) Rate It

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Franny Glass is a pretty, effervescent college student on a date with her intellectually confident...

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Sara Paretsky

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Carmilla, Queen of the Night, is a shape-shifting raven whose fictional exploits thrill girls all...

Emma (229 KP) rated Painter of Silence in Books

Jun 19, 2020

Painter of Silence

Georgina Harding | 2019 | Fiction & Poetry

2.0

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We read this book for the first book of my monthly book club, personally I rated it two stars, as a group we rated it three stars. I dont think any of us really loved it, and personally I wouldnt say I really enjoyed it, but that's maybe because it's a book I wouldn't usually pick. I found it really hard to connect with the style.of writing as i could not get immersed in the story of the characters. It wasnt a very personal.style of writing, instead it made you feel as though you were being kept at arms length. I only started to enjoy the story three quarters through the book when the story was being tied up and coming to an end. As a group we decided we wouldnt be reading anymore Georgina Harding.

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Faris Badwan recommended City to City by Gerry Rafferty in Music (curated)

City to City by Gerry Rafferty

1978 | Pop, Rock, Singer-Songwriter

5.7

(3 Ratings)

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"I think this might be one of my least favourite sleeves of all time. It's truly awful. That style of dodgy seventies graphic artwork is fucking disgusting. It almost looks like the side of a waltzer, but that actually makes it sound a little better because I'm a big funfair fan. To the point where I actually went to Blackpool Pleasure Beach on my own once, but more about that later. I think this sleeve is really fucking horrible and the record only just about redeems it. ‘Baker Street' is the one everyone knows with the long sax solo, but there's another song called ‘Right Down The Line' which is really cool. It was actually Honor [Titus] from Cerebral Ballzy that introduced me to that song. There's a lot more narrative here than in most of my interviews."

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