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The Beautiful and Damned (Sara’s book 10, 2010)

There’s a line in Tender is the Night when Fitzgerald says of a moderately talented individual, “Fine dives have been made from flimsier springboards.”
Fitzgerald was a skilled observer and a nuanced writer, perhaps not a masterful storyteller, fair enough, but a talented writer all the same. Bestowed with an impressive springboard, he never achieved what [...]

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Ian’s book 4, 2010)

The struggle to find time to read in between looking after a new baby continues, and some might say it’s probably not best to take on a big slab of dead Russian when your reading takes place in snatched moments on tube trains, but I’m so glad I did.

Crime and Punishment (Penguin Popular Classics)
Fyodor DostoyevskyPenguin [...]