Atonement
Registered by rem_VSP-560485 on 7/13/2006
8 journalers for this copy...
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper's son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Briony's sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge.
By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had never before dared to approach and will have become victims of the younger girl's scheming imagination, and Briony will have committed a dreadful crime, the guilt for which will colour her entire life.
By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had never before dared to approach and will have become victims of the younger girl's scheming imagination, and Briony will have committed a dreadful crime, the guilt for which will colour her entire life.
Reserved for shnedwards as part of a relay.
Journal Entry 3 by 
shnedwards
from Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Wednesday, August 23, 2006
shnedwards from Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Thanks very much aunt-sophie for sending me this book!
Journal Entry 4 by shnedwards from Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Thursday, January 25, 2007
shnedwards from Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Thursday, January 25, 2007
Ian McEwan is a master storyteller. Every book of his that I read convinces me so. This is another fine example (plagiarised or not!). Thanks again aunt-sophie!
Reserved for bookray
Mailing order:
stubee, UK
KT-J, UK
ThursdayN, Sweden
rapturina, Netherlands
RustyReader2, Canada
NepeanBCLibrary, Canada <---here
Ray being continued with replacement copy, here: http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6323128
Reserved for bookray
Mailing order:
stubee, UK
KT-J, UK
ThursdayN, Sweden
rapturina, Netherlands
RustyReader2, Canada
NepeanBCLibrary, Canada <---here
Ray being continued with replacement copy, here: http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6323128
Journal Entry 5 by shnedwards from Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Wednesday, February 28, 2007
shnedwards from Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Wednesday, February 28, 2007
On its way to stubee as of yesterday afternoon.
Arrived this weekend, After reading McEwan's Amsterdam and enjoying it so much I'm looking forward to this one. I have to get throught some of Oscar Wilde's work first but I'll start this shortly.
Cheers shnedwards for staring this ring.
:-]
Cheers shnedwards for staring this ring.
:-]
I enjoyed this book; it was a fascinating look into an astonishing sequence of events and their consequences from three different people’s perspective. I’d read McEwan’s Amsterdam previously and imagined that they’d be similar in style but that isn’t quite the case, and I’m very impressed by his varied work.
I've passed this on to KT-J to read.
Thanks shnedwards :-]
I've passed this on to KT-J to read.
Thanks shnedwards :-]
Stubee has passed this on to me, I'll get started on it after my current read
I really enjoyed reading this book, it was a really interesting story exploring the consequences of choices made in a moment, but which have a massive and long lasting effect in different ways.
I enjoyed Amsterdam but preferred the depth of Atonement in the way it was more fully written from the three different characters perspectives and it seemed to have more description, especially against the backdrop of WW2.
Thanks shnedwards and aunt-sophie for sending this out!
Edit 30/04/07 - this was posted today to ThursdayN. Hope you enjoy it :o)
I enjoyed Amsterdam but preferred the depth of Atonement in the way it was more fully written from the three different characters perspectives and it seemed to have more description, especially against the backdrop of WW2.
Thanks shnedwards and aunt-sophie for sending this out!
Edit 30/04/07 - this was posted today to ThursdayN. Hope you enjoy it :o)
Picked it up at the post office yesterday. I'll just have to finish my current book, then I'll start with this one.
Thank you KT-J for sending it!
=)
Thank you KT-J for sending it!
=)
I really liked this one!
Prior to this one I've only read Amsterdam and found it a bit predictable, a good read but not very special. Atonement, however, was a great read! I really liked the characters and found it a fascinating story, I've always been a sucker for WWII-settings...
Thank you shnedwards for starting this ray!
(I have pmed rapturina for the adress)
Prior to this one I've only read Amsterdam and found it a bit predictable, a good read but not very special. Atonement, however, was a great read! I really liked the characters and found it a fascinating story, I've always been a sucker for WWII-settings...
Thank you shnedwards for starting this ray!
(I have pmed rapturina for the adress)
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On its way to rapturina. Enjoy!
On its way to rapturina. Enjoy!
It's here, together with a few other rings - such a lovely sight to come back to when returning from holidays. :D
I'm really looking forward to this, it's the first McEwan book I'll read and it sounds fascinating.
[Hi, aunt-sophie! I didn't realize this was one of your books when I signed up for the ray. It's such a small world. :D]
I'm really looking forward to this, it's the first McEwan book I'll read and it sounds fascinating.
[Hi, aunt-sophie! I didn't realize this was one of your books when I signed up for the ray. It's such a small world. :D]
It took me a while to really get into this book. For the first 100 pages or so I thought it was pretty confusing and I couldn't remember who all the characters were and what their relations were to each other. But when the twins disappeared and the main story finally got going I couldn't stop reading, especially when the focus shifted to Robbie's war experiences. It's a very cleverly constructed story and I though the ending was very satisfying and gives lots of room for pondering the symbolical meaning of the events in the last chapters. I wonder if Briony's faith in the end is actually her real atonement - forgetting everything that happened - instead of the book she wrote?
I popped this book in the mail to RustyReader2 this morning!
I popped this book in the mail to RustyReader2 this morning!
I received the book the other day, but haven't had the chance to journal it yet. I am just finishing another bookray right now and will start this one as soon as I am done.
I have stalled this...sorry it has taken me so long to get through it, I was camping for two weeks and I forgot to bring my books with me.
It took a few chapters to get into this book, but once it really got going, I was unable to put it down, I really liked how it didn't stick to one main character throughout the book.
On it's way over to NepeanBCLibrary!
On it's way over to NepeanBCLibrary!
Received the book, thank you Rustyreader2 for passing it on and to shnedwards for sharing. I will get it started asap.
