Monthly Archives: April 2019

The Partenon by Mary Beard

Posted on April 26, 2019 by portiabridget

Product info: Oscar Wilde compared it to a white goddess, Evelyn Waugh to Stilton cheese. In observers from Lord Byron to Sigmund Freud to Virginia Woolf it met with astonishment, rapture, poetry, even tears–and, always, recognition. Twenty-five hundred years after … Continue reading →

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Sacred Games by Chandra Vikram

Posted on April 19, 2019 by portiabridget

Product info (from Goodreads): Sartaj, one of the very few Sikhs on the Mumbai police force, is used to being identified by his turban, beard and the sharp cut of his trousers. But “the silky Sikh” is now past forty, … Continue reading →

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The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle 02) by Neal Stephenson

Posted on April 12, 2019 by portiabridget

Product info (from Goodreads): In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves — including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka Half-Cocked Jack — devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure … Continue reading →

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This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay

Posted on April 5, 2019 by portiabridget

Product info: Adam Kay was a junior doctor from 2004 until 2010, before a devastating experience on a ward caused him to reconsider his future. He kept a diary throughout his training, and This Is Going to Hurt intersperses tales … Continue reading →

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