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JAMES, Clive

 B        Unreliable Memoirs    1980       Autobiography

Very readable style, includes some discomforting seedy juvenile recollections

 

 C-       Snakecharmers in Texas     1980-88      Essays

Limited audience pieces (with a use-by)

 

JAMES, Henry

 B        An International Episode           1878       Novella

Fascinating though less entertaining more modern foil to Lizzy Bennett

     

 B        Daisy Miller: A Study           1878       Short Story

James musing on the changing female role in his time

 

 B        The Bostonians      1886       Novel

I must have liked it to have kept it but I can’t remember why - time for a reread

 

JORDAN, Robert  

 B        The Eye of the World (Book 1 of The Wheel of Time)       1990     Fantasy

OK standard ride for a while, a bit tedious towards the finish

 

 B-       The Great Hunt (Book 2 of The Wheel of Time)       1990     Fantasy

Odd sequel (the baddie executed in Book 1 inexplicably reappears)

 

JOYCE, Rachel     

 B        The Unlikely Pigrimage of Harold Fry       2012     Novel

Endearing, poignant aspects unravel in the last third