On the shelf for reading….

This list is of the new books I have bought and intend to start soon and review (So keep a look out)

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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

“It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition that has been preoccuping my imagination now for some days. An expedition , I should say, which I will undertake alone, in the comfort of Mr Farraday’s Ford; an expedition which, as I foresee it, will take me through much of the finest countryside of England to the West Country, and may keep me away from Darlington Hall for as much as five or six days.”

 

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When God was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman

“I divide my life into two parts. Not really a before and after, more as if they are bookends, holding together flaccid years of empty musings, years of the late adolescent or the twentysomething whose coat of adulthood simply does not fit. Wandering years I waste no time in recalling”

 

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A Game of Thrones by George R. Martin

” ‘We should start back,’ Gared urger as the woods began to grow dark around them. ‘The wildings are dead.’

‘Do the dead frighten you?’ Ser Waymar Royce asked with just the hint of a smile. Gared did not rise to the bait. He was an old man, past fifty, and he had seen the lordlings come and go. ‘Dead is dead,’ he said. ‘We have no business with the dead.’

‘Are they dead? Royce asked softly. ‘What proof have we?’ “

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