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The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
Book # 538 Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily This is Doris Lessing’s first novel, published in 1950. She has another three on the 1001 List. The setting is 1940s rural Rhodesia. The opening lines are: Murder...
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2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
Book # 389 Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily I must confess to never having watched the entirety of the film, of which this novel is the precursor and close colleague, so the story was entirely new to me. The...
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Reviewer Focus: Ms Oh Waily
Welcome to a new feature for 2015, our Reviewer Focus posts. Over the course of the year we are going to recap the wonderful reviews we have already posted, but this time by the reviewer who...
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The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Book # 593 Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily I have had the pleasure of reading and reviewing all of John Steinbeck’s entries on the 1001 list. I started with Of Mice and Men back in 2012 and followed up with...
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
Book #695 Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily I will put my cards on the table right at the start. I have loved Agatha Christie’s work since I was a teenager, when I owned pretty much her entire works in secondhand...
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Emma – Jane Austen
Book #936 Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily The option of reading and reviewing a classic by Jane Austen is rather a relaxing entry in to a summer of 1001 Books for me. I had read her entire canon when I was a...
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Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Book #940 Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily After visiting the Regency world by re-reading Emma and reviewing it here at the end of last year, I thought I would continue to reacquaint myself with the four Jane...
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Written on the body – Jeanette Winterson
Book #154 Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily This is the second of four books by Jeanette Winterson to be reviewed here at the 1001 Books list. The first was Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit. Having read and...
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The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Book #242 Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian novel, published in 1985, which won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Governor General’s Award. The setting is the near future in the...
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The Gathering – Anne Enright
Book #9b Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily Published in 2007, this novel won the Man Booker Prize in the same year and two further Irish book awards the following year. Set predominantly in Dublin, the narrator is...
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