A Week in December
Registered by marijketje of Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant Netherlands on 11/26/2010
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Journal Entry 1 by marijketje from Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant Netherlands on Friday, November 26, 2010
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London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Over seven days we follow the lives of seven characters: a hedge fund manager trying to bring off the biggest trade of his career, a professional footballer recently arrived from Poland, a young lawyer with little work and too much time, a student led astray by Islamist theory, a hack book-reviewer, a schoolboy hooked on skunk and reality TV, and a Tube train driver whose Circle Line train joins these and countless other lives together in a daily loop.
Please make a journal entry to let me know that this book has been caught so I know that it has found a good home with you. I hope that you enjoy the book. You can make another journal entry with your comments when you are done reading. Then, whenever you are ready, send it on its way.
London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Over seven days we follow the lives of seven characters: a hedge fund manager trying to bring off the biggest trade of his career, a professional footballer recently arrived from Poland, a young lawyer with little work and too much time, a student led astray by Islamist theory, a hack book-reviewer, a schoolboy hooked on skunk and reality TV, and a Tube train driver whose Circle Line train joins these and countless other lives together in a daily loop.
What a lovely surprise to return from the UK recently and find not only a Bookring title from you Marijketie but this extra surprise RABCK title from my wishlist. Thankyou so much, I will make sure it keeps travelling in the spirit of BC once I have read.
This is the eighth and most recent novel that Sebastian Faulks has had published and differs from his normal style as it is the first one set totally in the present day. It is therefore impossible I feel to praise or criticise in comparison to his other novels. It stands alone as a contemporary novel from this diverse author of literary fiction and is a very interesting study on modern day life. Themes we have all been affected by in recent years terrorism, banking and greed.
Set in London,over a period of just the seven days in the week before Christmas, following the lives of seven protagonists. What a motley collection of characters they are a hedge fund manager, a Polish professional footballer, a young lawyer, a student, a journalist book-reviewer, a schoolboy and a Tube train driver. The latter whose Circle Line train joins these characters lives together. The novel is a complex study of modern urban life and the reader is able to see the effects of society on these characters long before they can.
In the end though they are all forced to accept the reality of the world we live in.
A Week In December is both a humorous and frighteningly realistic portrayal of the modern day world.
For more information please visit my post on LindyLouMac's Book Reviews
Set in London,over a period of just the seven days in the week before Christmas, following the lives of seven protagonists. What a motley collection of characters they are a hedge fund manager, a Polish professional footballer, a young lawyer, a student, a journalist book-reviewer, a schoolboy and a Tube train driver. The latter whose Circle Line train joins these characters lives together. The novel is a complex study of modern urban life and the reader is able to see the effects of society on these characters long before they can.
In the end though they are all forced to accept the reality of the world we live in.
A Week In December is both a humorous and frighteningly realistic portrayal of the modern day world.
For more information please visit my post on LindyLouMac's Book Reviews
Journal Entry 4 by LindyLouMac at Premier Inn in Salisbury, Wiltshire United Kingdom on Thursday, June 16, 2011
Released 12 yrs ago (6/21/2011 UTC) at Premier Inn in Salisbury, Wiltshire United Kingdom
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LindyLouMac
I'm so glad it has found a home with you. I hope you enjoy reading it and that you might take a few moments to jot down here what you thought about the book, or about finding it, or about bookcrossing.
You don't have to join or sign up or anything to bookcrossing to leave a comment here but if you do join, you will receive emails to alert you when others make a journal entry for this book and track its travels across the world. If you decide to join bookcrossing, now that you have discovered the site, I'd be delighted if you would mention me - LindyLouMac - as the person who introduced you to the site.
Happy reading
LindyLouMac
