Books by Linda Grant
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review 1: "We Had It So Good" is a difficult book for me to like. I wanted to, I really did. However, sadly, I just didn't care for it. Ploughing through the first hundred or so pages was turgid going, and I seriously considered abandoning the book. In the end, I finished it, with the reac...
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review 1: Well....some of the writing is very good...but what about plot? What about sympathetic characters? What about keeping the reader entertained? I skipped quite a few pages towards the middle because it just seemed to me to be a series of scenes and descriptions and quite a bit o...
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review 1: Linda Grant is a very good writer. She is vivid and conversational, smart and funny. It is a pleasure reading her prose. Her book on fashion is problematic, however. It might be how it is structured, a series of personal aperçus into why fashion is not frivolous but actually deep...
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review 1: I could identify totally with her struggle as I have had the same dilema. I recently changed countries again and was forced to downsize quite a bit. I'm still trying to find creative ways to squeeze in my vast library. At the same time I have decided to buy a Kindle and can see h...