Tag Archives: Reading

End of Days

April 27, 2009 – 9:48 am

I was driving with the kids to the local garden centre, listening to a news item on the radio about the outbreak of swine flu in Mexico. It struck me that, as a Stephen King fan from a while back, driving the kids to the local garden centre and hearing about a disease outbreak far [...]

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More Atticus

May 15, 2008 – 10:49 am

Rather timely, here’s a piece on what happened to the Finch family after the book: So much happened in that year and a half. Lessons were learned, innocence was lost, and a child put her fear of people different from herself behind her. There’s no denying it was a narratively gripping time. We were fortunate [...]

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Atticus

May 14, 2008 – 12:35 pm

I recently read To Kill A Mockingbird, essentially by accident. Browsing the entertainment aisle at the local supermarket I saw it on offer, thought “That’s the sort of book you’re supposed to read, isn’t it?”, and dropped it in my trolley*. I’ve tried with one or two books that you’re supposed to read. Anything Russian [...]

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