Results tagged “The Other Hand” from Liverpool Echo - First Rule of Book Club

I sighed when I closed the final page of this book.

I was addicted, absorbed and exhausted. Shocked but horribly enlightened.

The first line in this book is "Dear Osama" and the last is "WITH INCREDIBLE NOISE AND FURY"

So what of the inbetween?

Now, here is a book I've been meaning to read for some time - the giveaway might be the fact The God of Small Things won the Booker Prize in the dim and distant days of 1997.

Twelve years ago. Oh dear.

But are the advertising executives responsible for promoting a certain brand of Irish stout correct when they say ... good things come to those who wait?

Let's see...

Hands up if you like feeling mildly uncomfortable.

How about guilty? Happy feeling guilty?

Nope, me neither ... I get that twisting feeling that I should do more to change the world. Then I inevitably reach for another kit kat ... and another book.

Still, perhaps we all do more than we realise - boycotting the Daily Mail maybe or spoiling that perfectly friendly dinner party by arguing with the I'm-not-a-bigot bigot in the corner.

I think you should read this book.