JENNY ACKLAND AUTHOR

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Tag: Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie

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Battling on with Sir Salman

January 21, 2016January 22, 2016by Jenny May Ackland9 Comments on Battling on with Sir Salman

I am in the final stages of Midnight's Children and what a struggle it is. This is not a novel that will give itself over to me in any way. Just when I think I'm getting a grip, it slips away from me, like one of the frequent snake motifs scattered through the book, or [...]

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Read #1: The God of Small Things

January 9, 2016January 19, 2016by Jenny May Ackland8 Comments on Read #1: The God of Small Things

I finished my first Reading India book last night, Arundhati Roy's first - and only - published novel, The God of Small Things. It's a book I had tried once before to read, and not gotten through the first twenty or so pages. This time, because of my challenge, I persisted. And for a long [...]

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