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All The Names by José Saramago5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() Under the increasingly mystified eye of the Registrar, a godlike figure whose name is spoken only in whispers, the now obsessed Senhor José sets off to follow the thread that leads him to the unknown woman-but as he gets closer to a meeting with her, he discovers more about her, and about himself, than he would have wished. But when he comes across the birth certificate of an anonymous young woman, he decides that this cannot have been mere chance, that he has to discover more about her. In the evenings and on weekends, he works on bringing up to date his clipping file of the famous, the rising stars, the notorious. ![]() A middle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond the certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death that are his daily preoccupations. Senhor José is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry, where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. ![]()
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The warmth of other suns review5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() The Wide World of Public Health Systems.The Public Health Workforce Is Not Okay: Lessons from the Public Health Frontline.The Healthiest Goldfish with Sandro Galea. ![]()
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The Group by Mary McCarthy5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It makes me believe in intelligent Americans in a way that Sex and the City doesn't. All of these make it totally outrageous but dreadfully refreshing.(How many books do this?) And not missing are McCarthy's wit and humour. This book is so eloquent and dry and upfront and honest. I have read it three times (2007 was the last time) and seen the movie several times, a very faithful rendition. My Student Director immediately confiscated it, so I knew its reputation was still going strong.(He didn't see my two volumes of Nietzsche I'd also bought with money my Mum had given me for my 20th birthday - I'd only bought them because I'd already seen him confiscate a Nietzsche on the grounds that it could destroy one's faith and I was already seeing large holes in the Church's fabric myself!!) I mentioned what had happened to my History tutor, a Russian woman, at Adelaide University(South Australia) and she gave me her copy of McCarthy which I still have. I was determined to read it and finally got hold of it in 1967 when I was studying to be a Catholic priest. I can remember my Dad's married sisters discussing this book (they were voracious readers always) in the 1960's. ![]()
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Tyrant tm frazier5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() King’s life, and everything he has dreamed of is in jeopardy. Frazier does an amazing job of putting you into these characters’ worlds and I felt everything! There are two definite stories being told, Doe’s and King’s, and though they obviously intertwine, both of them have battles to face and I loved the incredible detail and raw emotion that was written into their journeys. God, I loved this book! Like the first, it is dark, gritty and incredibly graphic in its intensity, but T.M. Meanwhile, King has his own battles to fight – scary and violent and battles that will endanger not only his life, but everybody that he cares about. ![]() ![]() Raw and gritty, this book is just as dark as the first – possibly even more so – but the character development is fantastic and the love story (though raw and intense, just like King himself) is beautiful! Pretty much anything I say will be a spoiler for either of the books, but I’m going to try and keep this review as vague as possible.ĭoe is back with her family, and is starting to remember snippets of her past but still with no real memory of her life as it was. “You and me… we’re a forever kind of thing.”įollowing on from the sensational King, this book picks up right from that shocking ending and gives us the conclusion to King and Doe’s story. ![]() |