Category: Writing for the Web

The only reference I could find to or quote from this anthology was a essay on street kids on Changemakers

Nothing particularly outstanding about this book. I simply enjoyed reading it.

It is a short but a powerful story about the Partition of India in 1947. A smooth, comfortable, easy read. Yet evocative and at times horribly brutal.

Ex SAS Chris Ryan writes combat action thrillers.

OK for a light read. But tend to be a little too gung ho and melodramatic.

A light easy read

An action thriller that is mostly believable whilst being far from likely. Written by someone who has had personal Special Forces experience.

Another disappointing read.

The dialogue is not just boring, it gets really tiresome. A book where contemporary becomes jumbled nonsense. I need to learn to avoid plugs like..Lyrical..Evocative..&..Striking.

Anything but.

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It was going to be long flight there and back.

So I stocked up with what I could find from Andy McNab and Chris Ryan. Books I can skim through. However I do worry that I should be looking for stuff that has a bit more substance to it. Chris Ryans work is readable although the tales are very much do and die.

Helps to pass the time.

I almost gave up on this one

But I persevered to the bitter end. A whodunnit complete with the twist in the tale that was entirely predictable.

Written by Tash Aw, We The Survivors is as good a read as any I have found.

He has a comfortable, easy style and his narrative about nothing much, held my attention, despite everything it was not. If there was a theme it was grinding poverty and the futility of trying to change things that remain the same. Life inevitably returning to where it begins.