I told Colleen at Foreign Circus Library that I love books about research, and she ever so kindly sent it to me in the post! Lucky me, I read it over the weekend. Poor Connie has just got through with her qualifying exams – sounds like a nightmare, that lot, I don’t think I was sufficiently sympathetic to my dear friend tim when she was having quals (sorry tim!) – and her scatty New Age mother demands she go fix up her (Connie’s) late grandmother’s old house and get it sold. While living at the house, Connie finds a little…
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I just spent five minutes combing through my “Reference” page trying to figure out where I heard about this book. I have no idea, but apparently it wasn’t from someone’s website. I guess I must have just grabbed it off the new books shelf at the library. A Map of Home is all about a girl called Nidali whose father is Palestinian and her mother is Greek-Egyptian, and they live in Kuwait first, and then Egypt, and then eventually America. While she is growing up. It’s a coming-of-age thing. Really, this book was excellent. The concept wasn’t the most original…
3 CommentsThe Fire Fighter is about a guy who is good at putting out fires, so good in fact that he gets taken away from the front in Africa, and has to come back to London and protect these five buildings in London, during the Blitz. He is not best pleased about this as it’s not clear to him what’s so good about these five buildings, and the mysterious Military Intelligence people are extremely vague and un-forthcoming. He has a painful past, worries about his mother and brother, and falls in love with a German woman who works as a translator…
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