CHRISTINE POULSON Life and Fate Archives

Reading resolutions

Posted on Jan 1, 2014 in Arnaldur Indridason. Penelope Fitzgerald, Asa Larrson, Hermione Lee, Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino, Life and Fate, Maigret, Middlemarch, Until Thy Wrath Be Past, Vasily Grossman | 2 Comments

This is a good time to take stock of the previous year and plan for the next one. For me the reading highlight of 2013 had to be Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate. It towered above everything else. What a book, and what a man.The crime novel that’s stuck in my mind is one that […]

Endings

Posted on Dec 13, 2013 in CWA Johm Creasey Dagger, Derek. B. Miller., Life and Fate, Norwegian by Night, Vasily Grossman | 2 Comments

I’ve just read Norwegian by Night, by Derek B. Miller. It won the CWA John Creasey Dagger for best debut novel this year and it was a worthy winner. Sheldon Horowitz, elderly watch-repairer and Korean veteran, suffering from dementia, is living in Oslo with his grandaughter when he witnesses the murder of a young woman […]

Life and Fate

Posted on Sep 10, 2013 in Life and Fate, Vasily Grossman | 2 Comments

In my previous post I wrote about a book I was reading when I was nineteen. It was a wonderful time in my reading life, when I read voraciously: WAR AND PEACE, ANNA KARENINA, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, quite apart from the books that I was required to read for my English degree.I used to be […]

Reading in blinkers

Posted on Jan 18, 2013 in Kindle, Life and Fate, Vasily Grossman | 3 Comments

That was one of my first reactions to reading on my Kindle Paperwhite which my husband gave me for my birthday in December. Given that I am thinking of making two of my Cassandra novels available as ebooks, it seemed time to try out the technology for myself. It has made me more conscious of […]