Tag: Ian McEwan

by CG FEWSTON March 8, 2017
Fiction Pictures

Nutshell (2016) by Ian McEwan & Dreams had in a Mother’s Womb

“But lately, don’t ask why, I’ve no taste for comedy, no inclination to exercise, even if I had the space, no delight in fire or earth, in words that once revealed a golden world of majestical stars, the beauty of poetic apprehension, the infinite joy of reason.”

by CG FEWSTON September 28, 2016
Fiction

The Dark Forest: Remembrance of Earth’s Past #2 (2008/2015) by Cixin Liu & The Future of Humanity

“Suppose a vast number of civilizations are distributed throughout the universe, on the order of the number of detectable stars. Lots and lots of them. Those civilizations make up the body of a cosmic society. Cosmic sociology is the study of the nature of this super-society” (p 12).

by CG FEWSTON June 15, 2016
Fiction Pictures

The Three-Body Problem (2006/2014) by Cixin Liu & the Remembrance of Earth’s Past

“She was intoxicated by her brilliant, crimson dream until a bullet pierced her chest.”

by CG FEWSTON May 31, 2016
Fiction Film Pictures

Norwegian Wood (1987) by Haruki Murakami & the Songs of Seeking Love

“Well, to me, that’s what love is. Not that anyone can understand me, though.”

by CG FEWSTON May 18, 2015
Fiction Pictures

Amsterdam (1998) by Ian McEwan & the Booker Winner with Such Twisted Beauty

A superbly written piece of brutal heartlessness and blatant betrayals on all sides.

by CG FEWSTON November 7, 2013
Fiction Film

Atonement (2001) by Ian McEwan

”At first, when she pushed open the door and stepped in, she saw nothing at all. The only light was from a single green-glass desk lamp which illuminated little more than the tooled leather surface on which it stood. When she took another few steps she saw them, dark shapes in the furthest corner. “