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Started Early, Took My Dog – Kate Atkinson

December 17, 2011

Although I read the whole book—completing it while on vacation in San Francisco—I found Started Early, Took My Dog less …

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James and Atkinson

November 22, 2011

Still in this rut where I go from Atkinson to James, from James to Atkinson. It’s not over yet: I’ve …

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When Will There Be Good News – Masterpiece Mystery edition

November 20, 2011

I’m so glad I read the book first. So much was changed in the television version to accommodate the abbreviated …

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Kate Atkinson – When Will There Be Good News?

November 10, 2011

I know. I’m on an obsessive roll. My third Kate Atkinson/Jackson Brodie book in a month. But that’s one of …

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One Good Turn – Kate Atkinson

October 24, 2011

Case Histories is a good detective novel, but One Good Turn is a good novel. In Histories, I could find …

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One Good Turn – Turns of phrase

October 23, 2011

Kate Atkinson obviously loves to play with language—One Good Turn, her sequel to Case Histories, is chock full of riffs …

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Case Histories – a Fall River connection

October 20, 2011

I’m hardly the first reader to appreciate the surprising connections that can arise between writer and reader—those random references or …

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Case Histories on PBS

October 18, 2011

Perhaps it wasn’t such a good idea to read a book right before its televised version. The book’s details are …

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Jackson Brodie: man and dog

October 15, 2011

Taking my morning walk with the dogs, I started thinking about the ways that Atkinson deftly shows us the state …

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Case Histories – Kate Atkinson

October 13, 2011

I’m a little late to the party, I know, but I’ve been circling Case Histories for some time now. I …

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