“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough. She lies on the bed beside Claire, above the sheets. The faint tang of the old woman’s breath on the air. The clock. The fan. The breeze. The world spinning.” These are the final words of Colum McCann’s fantastic novel, Let the Great World Spin, whose [...]
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The world spins
Posted in What I'm reading, tagged books, Colum McCann, In Memorium, Let the Great World Spin, Locksley Hall, poetry, Tennyson on September 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Midtown after Irene
Posted in My photos, tagged Colum McCann, Hurricane Irene, Let the Great World Spin, My photos, New York on August 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Around the watchers, the city still made its everyday noises. Car horns. Garbage trucks. Ferry whistles. The thrum of the subway. The M22 bus pulled in against the sidewalk, braked, sighed down into a pothole. A flying chocolate wrapper touched against a fire hydrant. Taxi doors slammed. Bits of trash sparred in the darkest reaches [...]
Holiday reading
Posted in What I'm reading, tagged Andrea Levy, AVisit From the Goon Squad, books, Colum McCann, Jennifer Egan, Let the Great World Spin, Tea Obreht, The Long Song, The Tiger's Wife on July 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I am off to see my family in Spain and England so thought I would use the time to catch up on some prize-winning reading: A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Pulitzer Prize) I have read this already but loved it so much that I am already looking forward to reading it [...]
