tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31514375.post115524973260072193..comments2023-10-25T03:02:28.821-07:00Comments on Bookcracker: One Thing to Carry OnBabette Fraser Halehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16801971149305731956noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31514375.post-1155673359243068632006-08-15T13:22:00.000-07:002006-08-15T13:22:00.000-07:00This sounds quite a departure from Cloud Atlas, Ch...This sounds quite a departure from Cloud Atlas, Chas. I agree with the Kirkus assessment on him and will look for the book.Babette Fraser Halehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16801971149305731956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31514375.post-1155591698916077992006-08-14T14:41:00.000-07:002006-08-14T14:41:00.000-07:00I'm reading Black Swan Green by David Mitchell. It...I'm reading Black Swan Green by David Mitchell. It is delightfully escapist, if not a departure from the complex work of Mitchell's other books. A single year in the life of a thirteen-year-old boy in Cold War England, 1982. <BR/><BR/>Even those hard-asses at Kirkus gave it a star...calls it: <BR/><BR/>"Great Britain's Catcher in the Rye—and another triumph for one of the present age's most interesting and accomplished novelists"<BR/><BR/>http://www.kirkusreviews.com/kirkusreviews/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001919028Chas Chesterfield Esq.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04050159181470055193noreply@blogger.com