Blogs about: Ian Mcewan

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A Night to Remember?2 comments

mendicus wrote 2 days ago: I picked up On Chesil Beach as I was rushing out of a bookstore, knowing nothing about it except … more »

Tags: Fiction, Oxford, On Chesil Beach, Wedding Night

Against Beach Reading

ohkrapp wrote 4 days ago: People are self-conscious about what they read. Not everyone, of course, as you might have noticed … more »

Tags: autodidact, Books, Aesthetics, Summer Reading List, Beach Reading, standard of taste, Literary criticism, David Denby, hemginway

Summer Reading14 comments

Tracy Grant wrote 5 days ago: There’s something about summer that seems to call out for lazy afternoons burrowing into books … more »

Tags: Dorothy Dunnett, Dorothy Sayers, Elizabeth George, Emma Bull, Laurie King, Loretta Chase, Penelope Williamson, Steven Brust, Tracy Grant

Rod Stewart shops at Winners

pymette wrote 6 days ago: I just thought it might be interesting to start the rumour. No, seriously, I did see him at the mall … more »

Tags: Rod Stewart, Shopping, book

Saturday by Ian McEwan

amybradneygeorge wrote 1 week ago: I approached this particular work with a cautious respect – having only read one other McEwan b … more »

Tags: Review, Literature, Society, World Events, Stories

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan8 comments

redheadrambles wrote 1 week ago:                         On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (2007) - Shortlisted for Man Book … more »

Tags: booker 2007, Books

The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan

amybradneygeorge wrote 1 week ago: There is something so compelling about exploring the human condition and looking at how certain p … more »

Tags: Culture, Literature, Review, The Cement Garden

On Chesil Beach - a book review1 comment

tallandrew wrote 2 weeks ago: I have just finished reading British author, Ian McEwan’s latest novel, On Chesil Beach. I hav … more »

Tags: Culture, Faith, Books, On Chesil Beach, Forgiveness

Enduring Love, Ian McEwan2 comments

openpalm wrote 3 weeks ago: Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love is on the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. It has prompted … more »

Tags: Love, trauma, 1001

"...multiculturalism presupposes mutual tolerance."

crazybengal wrote 3 weeks ago: Ahhh.  There’s the rub.  If you read the Quran (you really only need to read a little bit), … more »

Tags: Jihad, Politics, Religion, Liberals, Islam, Multiculturalism, Islamism, Amis

‘1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.’ Or Not.6 comments

1minutebookreviewswordpresscom wrote 1 month ago: Not long ago, I picked up the alarmingly titled 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (Rizzoli/Uni … more »

Tags: Essays and Reviews, nonfiction, Bad sex, Book Reviews, Books, Culture, Entertainment, Life, Literary criticism

The Trailer for Atonement

Paul Badger wrote 1 month ago: This is a nice trailer for the film Atonement. It’s well photographed and a pleasure to watch … more »

Tags: films, Atonement, Film-Trailers, James McAvoy, Joe Wright, Keira Knightley, Romola Garai, Saoirse Ronan, Vanessa Redgrave

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

bagpussjanet wrote 1 month ago: The ‘blurb’ It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive … more »

Tags: Reviews, On Chesil Beach

atonement

pia wrote 1 month ago: … more »

Tags: film, England, Atonement, Keira Knightley, Joe Wright, James McAvoy, 1930s, Britain, World War Two

Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, and Islamism!5 comments

Dark Skies wrote 1 month ago: Last weekend, Ian McEwan, the award-winning British author of Atonement, found himself in hot water … more »

Tags: Politics, World News, General News, military, Add new tag, Islam, Muslim, Telegraph UK, UK

It Has Nothing To Do With Race4 comments

crazybengal wrote 1 month ago: So stop calling the people who criticise you “racist” and start looking at why people ar … more »

Tags: Jihad, Politics, Religion, Islam, Islamists, mulsims, Race, racism

Ian McEwan's "Atonement" by Nicola4 comments

Nicola wrote 1 month ago: With all the hype surrounding this novel, especially after Joe Wright’s stunning outing with … more »

Tags: Books, Atonement, Best Sellers, Fiction, Literature

Happy Birthday Ian McEwan

mikeb302000 wrote 1 month ago: I got a bit of a kick out of reading that it’s Ian McEwan’s birthday today on Answers.co … more »

Tags: Books, led zeppelin, BLACK DOGS, Black Dog, Good Books

Atonement by Ian McEwan

joeinthebox wrote 1 month ago: Atonement is one of those books you read after the movie and usually people say, “Oh, the boo … more »

Tags: Atonement, book, Life, Love, War, Redemption


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