Thursbitch
10 journalers for this copy...
Description: "HERE JOHN TURNER WAS CAST AWAY IN A HEAVY SNOW STORM IN THE NIGHT IN THE YEAR 1755" "THE PRINT OF A WOMAN'S SHOE WAS FOUND BY HIS SIDE IN THE SNOW WHERE HE LAY DEAD" nbsp; John Turner was a packman. With his train of horses he carried salt and silk across distances incomprehensible to his ancient and static community. He brings ideas as well as gifts that have come, by many short journeys, from market town to market town, and from places as distant as the campfires of the Silk Road. John Turner's death in the 18th century leaves an emotional charge Ian and Sal find affects their relationship in the 21st, challenging the perceptions they have of themselves and of each other. A visionary fable firmly rooted in a verifiable place, this novel is an evocation of the lives and the language of all people who are called to the valley of Thursbitch.
I really had a hard time w/ this one. The switching back and forth drove me nuts. I really didn't like the present sections. Very happy to have this one done and another one off my 1001 list.
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Off to ChiBoiler...
Off to ChiBoiler...
I finished this book and still have no idea what it was about. I went on Wikipedia and their very brief description said it was about a murder. What? I didn't even get that part. I thought some guy froze to death. At least it was short and I can cross another one off the 1001 list.
releasing to a fellow bookcrosser
The book is home again... I'll start a bookray soon.
I am offering this as an INTERNATIONAL bookray. Please be willing to ship internationally if necessary (cheapest rate is fine). I will do my best to meet everyone's shipping preferences.
Please read and pass it to the next person within a month.
Participants (Subject to change w/o notice):
1. Danielle23 - UK (Int'l)
2. babydoll857 - UK (UK)
3. MKtiny - UK (Int'l)
4. franaloe - Netherlands (EU)
Please read and pass it to the next person within a month.
Participants (Subject to change w/o notice):
1. Danielle23 - UK (Int'l)
2. babydoll857 - UK (UK)
3. MKtiny - UK (Int'l)
4. franaloe - Netherlands (EU)
Journal Entry 10 by angela861 at Sunderland, Tyne and Wear United Kingdom on Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Released 13 yrs ago (9/7/2010 UTC) at Sunderland, Tyne and Wear United Kingdom
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Off to the first reader of the bookray... Happy Reading!
Journal Entry 11 by Danielle23 at Sunderland, Tyne and Wear United Kingdom on Thursday, September 23, 2010
Arrived a few days ago and I finished reading it today. An interesting little story but it seemed to be slow, confused and too short for me. Thanks for sharing Angela, that's another crossed off the list xx
Journal Entry 12 by babydoll857 at Isleworth, Greater London United Kingdom on Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Received for a bookring. I will read it, journal it and pass it on within a month. Thanks!
It took me a little while to get round to reading this - sorry - and then it took me a little while to read it because, as someone has already journalled, I didn't really have much of a clue what it was about until about page 100 when there was an illusion to the plague, but then it didn't turn out to be really about that either. I found it to be a frustrating book as it was always on the brink of being interesting but the lack of explanation and the double storyline was just confusing. Read 'Birdsong' by Sebastian Faulks for how to write a moving and successful double plot-line in two different eras.
It took me a little while to get round to reading this - sorry - and then it took me a little while to read it because, as someone has already journalled, I didn't really have much of a clue what it was about until about page 100 when there was an illusion to the plague, but then it didn't turn out to be really about that either. I found it to be a frustrating book as it was always on the brink of being interesting but the lack of explanation and the double storyline was just confusing. Read 'Birdsong' by Sebastian Faulks for how to write a moving and successful double plot-line in two different eras.
Journal Entry 13 by MKtiny at Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Arrived today. I have a couple of books to finish before I get to this one, but I'm looking forward to it. It sounds like the kind of book you have to concentrate on, so I won't read it before bed, when I'm already half asleep.
Journal Entry 14 by MKtiny at Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire United Kingdom on Saturday, January 15, 2011
This is definitely a weird book. It's like one big riddle; nothing is clear or staightforward. I think it's meant to be read like this and the reader has to constantly think about what it means and what is exactly going on. At first I found it frustrating, but I think each reader is supposed to get something different from it. Once I accepted that I would never 'get it', I went with the flow and drew my own conclusions. I would like to read it again, as I'm sure I would get something else from it on a second reading and that is where it is a clever story. The Cheshire dialect is hard to grasp without some concentration, but it is all part of the story and it would be less successful without it.
On it's way to franaloe. Thanks for sharing. It is a book I will definitely reread at some stage - and I don't do that very often at all.
On it's way to franaloe. Thanks for sharing. It is a book I will definitely reread at some stage - and I don't do that very often at all.
Journal Entry 15 by franaloe at Texel, Oudeschild, Noord-Holland Netherlands on Saturday, January 29, 2011
It´s here! Thanks fo sending.
Journal Entry 16 by franaloe at Texel, Oudeschild, Noord-Holland Netherlands on Monday, February 28, 2011
Right....I have no clue what to say about this book, because I did not understand the story at all. I believe it was flipping back and forth in time, and the woman (Sal) in the present can sea and hear things that have happened at that place in the past. However, I could be completely wrong. Weird.
I see that I am the last person on the list, so I'll contact the starter of the ray to ask about the plan for this book.
I see that I am the last person on the list, so I'll contact the starter of the ray to ask about the plan for this book.
Journal Entry 17 by franaloe at A fellow BookCrosser, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Released 13 yrs ago (3/7/2011 UTC) at A fellow BookCrosser, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases
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Thursbitch is off to Oppem, who won the quick RABCK raffle.
I hope you like the book and keep it moving!
Enjoy! Cheers, franaloe
I hope you like the book and keep it moving!
Enjoy! Cheers, franaloe
Found this book in my mailbox today - what a lovely surprise.
I promise to read it & pass it along (but cannot promise to be quick...).
Really appreciate your sending me this - thanks.
I promise to read it & pass it along (but cannot promise to be quick...).
Really appreciate your sending me this - thanks.
This book is the first book that I have ever read to the end & then turned around instantly & re-read all the way thru.
It seemed to touch me in a way I cannot begin to explain...
I have not read any other books by Alan Garner but he seems to have a way of connecting with nature and how it can effect people in different ways.
I loved the way he took an actual place up in the Derbyshire Pennines and then brought it to life through our eyes in the 21st. century & also thru Jack & Nan Sal's eyes in the 1750's.
I loved the way the two era's entertwinned at times within the narrative, almost touching but never quite ....
This is a novel that will live with me for somtime and strange as this book was, for me it was a very moving, personal read.
It seemed to touch me in a way I cannot begin to explain...
I have not read any other books by Alan Garner but he seems to have a way of connecting with nature and how it can effect people in different ways.
I loved the way he took an actual place up in the Derbyshire Pennines and then brought it to life through our eyes in the 21st. century & also thru Jack & Nan Sal's eyes in the 1750's.
I loved the way the two era's entertwinned at times within the narrative, almost touching but never quite ....
This is a novel that will live with me for somtime and strange as this book was, for me it was a very moving, personal read.
Released 12 yrs ago (4/20/2012 UTC) at Christchurch, Canterbury New Zealand
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You have been tagged - hope you enjoy the book...
It's arrived safely~!!! Thank you~!!
This wishlist tag game is fun :D
This wishlist tag game is fun :D
A magic book, two live's mirroring each others in different ways. And a pagan Bull god watching all.
A very sad ending
A very sad ending
Off to Belgium!
Enjoy this wishlist book!
Enjoy this wishlist book!
I seem to have caught a well-travelled book ! I'm very happy about it. Especially because I'm intrigued by the story and because of it being 1001-listed.
It's 'en plus' heartbreaking but beautiful to see that Oppem read it two persons before me, she was such a nice and friendly and lovely and intelligent bookcrosser and I still miss her here ... I hope they have journal entries in the big booklovers' community in the sky so that she gets mine ...
Thank you Sfogs ! So nice of you ! It might take a very long time, but I will get to it !
It's 'en plus' heartbreaking but beautiful to see that Oppem read it two persons before me, she was such a nice and friendly and lovely and intelligent bookcrosser and I still miss her here ... I hope they have journal entries in the big booklovers' community in the sky so that she gets mine ...
Thank you Sfogs ! So nice of you ! It might take a very long time, but I will get to it !
