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Mausoleum of their marriage

Nathan Hobby wrote 6 months ago: By any estimate, it was a long time until judgement day, and until then the truth that only Marshall … more »

Tags: Marriage, lies, Atonement (novel), Truth

The twins' note

Nathan Hobby wrote 6 months ago: We are gong to run away becase Lola and Betty are horid to us and we want to go home. Sory we took s … more »

Tags: Atonement (novel), Childhood

Storytelling as the pleasure of minaturisation

Nathan Hobby wrote 6 months ago: Writing stories not only involved secrecy, it also gave her all the pleasures of minaturisation. A w … more »

Tags: death, writing, Marriage, Atonement (novel), Quotes, Order

Idealistic politics is all about the future

Nathan Hobby wrote 7 months ago: We couldn’t grasp it, we couldn’t draw ourselves into the present. Instead we wanted to … more »

Tags: BLACK DOGS, Politics

Photography

Nathan Hobby wrote 7 months ago: It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative len … more »

Tags: time, aging, Immortality, BLACK DOGS, Quotes, Photography

Ian McEwan - Atonement

fyreflybooks wrote 7 months ago: 110. Atonement by Ian McEwan (2001) Length: 351 pages Genre: Literary fiction; 2001 Booker Prize sho … more »

Tags: 5 Stars, General Fiction, Historical Fiction, book, Book Review, Ian McEwan

Booker 2007 - McEwan and Me7 comments

lizzysiddal wrote 10 months ago: It’s a long-standing relationship of sorts.  I’ve been reading McEwan for the best part … more »

Tags: booker 2007, prizewinners

He would be a better doctor for having read literature

Nathan Hobby wrote 1 year ago: For this was the point, surely: he would be a better doctor for having read literature. What deep re … more »

Tags: Reading, Atonement (novel), Medicine

Was everyone else really as alive as she was?

Nathan Hobby wrote 1 year ago: Was everyone else really as alive as she was? For example, did her sister really matter to herself, … more »

Tags: Consciousness, Atonement (novel)

Air travel

Nathan Hobby wrote 1 year ago: Flung across the Atlantic at five hundred feet a second, you submit to the folly because everyone el … more »

Tags: death, flying, Saturday (novel), statistics, crashes

Addicts

Nathan Hobby wrote 1 year ago: It can’t just be class or opportunities - the drunks and junkies come from all kinds of backgr … more »

Tags: Saturday (novel), addicts, Genetics, Homeless

Seeing the best in people

Nathan Hobby wrote 1 year ago: In Leon’s life, or rather his account of his life, no one was mean-spirited, no one schemed or … more »

Tags: optimism, Atonement (novel)

Self consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy.

Nathan Hobby wrote 1 year ago: (102) … more »

Tags: enduring love, Self-consciousness, sex

Bad at arguments

Nathan Hobby wrote 1 year ago: She is especially bad at arguments. She has never been able to accept the rules of engagement which … more »

Tags: Relationships, Love, enduring love, Arguments

It's possible to ask to be left alone

Nathan Hobby wrote 1 year ago: Theirs is the kind of relationship in which it is perfectly possible to ask to be left alone without … more »

Tags: enduring love, Marriage, Relationships

Untangling a relationship

Nathan Hobby wrote 1 year ago: Who you get, and how it works out - there’s so much luck involved, as well as the million bran … more »

Tags: Relationships, Love, enduring love, Chance

The experience of love

Nathan Hobby wrote 1 year ago: However much I thought about Clarissa, in memory or in anticipation, experiencing her again, the fee … more »

Tags: Love, enduring love

Watching the news

Nathan Hobby wrote 1 year ago: To calm myself I turned to that evening clinic of referred pain, the TV news. Tonight, a mass grave … more »

Tags: insightful writing, enduring love, comfort, Television

A pointless death

Nathan Hobby wrote 1 year ago: Logan’s death was pointless - that was part of the reason we were in shock. Good people someti … more »

Tags: death, Meaning of Life, enduring love, Atheism


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