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I‘m hard to buy books for but my flatmate managed to get me one that sounds totally up my street AND I‘ve never heard of

#morningread J. M. Coetzee is so distinctive; you would never confuse his work with anyone else's.

Also, I love this cover.

I WOULD have been able to read this and finish the Booker long list on time BUT the Book Depository screwed up my order and sent me Italian CDs instead. And now I can't. Grrrrrrr.

This book is a sequel to The Childhood of the Jesus (but I think it could also be read as a standalone) and it's, as the previous, the philosophical/allegorical work that deals with the idea of morality through passion. I didn't understand all the symbolism/references and so I don't know if it's okay to rate the book. I don't understand where author leads us with this morality tale/story ...maybe it will be more clear in the third part. But I ...

To #feelgood I need coffee/tea, homemade pie (in my case this is the plum pie), shelfs (virtual or wooden) to choose a book and regardless of the content this is my #feelgoodbook
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The last four from #manbooker2016 longlist. This is my list for #currentlyreading #currently #augustphotochallenge

Have you read J.M. Coetzee‘s The Schooldays of Jesus yet?

Here‘s what our Man Booker Prize 2016 judges have to say on the novel… ‘A riddling, interrogative novel from a master of the form: bare in construction yet dense with meaning.‘

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