Wendy Pratt Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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1. Finally got to the end of One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquis). When I earlier in February that I was reading it I had a mixed response, but mostly positive. A book that is lots of peoples favourites. https://t.co/LIuu7w3y9W

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Just finished reading Jeanette Winterson’s ‘The Daylight Gate’. I’ll be honest, I found it flat. The all tell, no show style left me feeling disconnected. The characters were flat, the dialogue thin, the plot almost ridiculous at times. Sorry to those who loved it! #AmReading https://t.co/mOHIaryKFg

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Next up on the reading pile: ‘Soundings’ by Doreen Cunningham. I’ve heard mixed reviews in this one, interested to see what it’s like. Who else has read it? #AmReading #booklove https://t.co/U1oz9TVRmp

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Two books that I recommend a lot, use as a mentor and return to for my own practice are: Bernadine Evaristo's 'Manifesto' and Margaret Atwood's 'Negotiating with the Dead' #WriterLife #WriterTools https://t.co/or6V0jeVYZ

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1/2 Finished Elena Ferrante’s ‘The Lost Daughter’ last night. Superb. Stylistically it reminded me of Virginia Woolf’s work; her ability to capture the internal alongside the external without barriers, do the two intermingle in the same space. https://t.co/02iXU0SZaM

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Next up on my poetry reading pile: @SarahWimbush ‘s ‘Shelling Peas with My Grandmother in the Gorgiolands’ from @BloodaxeBooks . I am so excited to read this book, who else has read it? #poetry https://t.co/ECqTWrCBBw

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Finished reading @JoanneLimburg ‘Letters to My Weird Sisters’. It is astonishingly good. Sometimes you read a book and it becomes a part of your own narrative, finding its way into the patchwork of your own story. This is such a book. It’s fascinating, fluid and moving. https://t.co/yi4eQ279AP

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I read ‘Giving Up The Ghost’ a year or so back. I think, alongside Wolf Hall, my favourite of Hilary Mantel’s. This quote, rightly, making its way around the internet today. https://t.co/R9Axhfm0iF

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33. September Poetry 163 Days Hannah Hodgson https://t.co/NIzO0XeNlT

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Today is mostly about running the first of my ‘The Caged Bird Sings’ zoom course sessions. Bit nervous. New venture for me, this, if it does well I’ll do more. Reassured to see some familiar names on the register! Looking at poems by @pollyrowena David Cooke and Alice Oswald. https://t.co/NGs5jJu5KB

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