by Doris Lessing
2.5 Stars The Grass is singing by Dorris Lessing was a bookclub read.I found the book an ok read, I liked the setting of the novel and thought the author conveyed an excellent sense of time and place. The story at the core of this novel is about race and the racist attitudes of society at this time...
I read this in one sitting--not so much because it's short--although it's a relatively short novel--but I found it nigh un-putdownable, which is a bit odd, because this novel has several aspects I'd ordinarily find off-putting. It's on an ugly subject--racism, with characters impossible to like but ...
Mary leads a peaceful balanced life until people's gossip makes her realise that she lives an illusion. She thinks that she has everything she has, yet society thinks that she needs a hubby. Defeated by a sad reality she decides to get married. Dick Turner a proud young man who is struggling with li...
This book grows on you. While I was reading it, it disturbed me. It has a strong emotional impact. What disturbed me was that the story is told. There is an omniscient narrator who explains everything, what happens and why each character makes the choices they make. We are told how they feel and why...
Ixeos…what is it? It is Earth, but not like the Earth we know. Our houses are there, the Statue of Liberty is right where she should be, but the humans are under the rule of an alien race. How to get there? Chosen, exactly how is not known, are brought in by tunnels. Tunnels that close behind y...
In her first novel, The Grass is Singing (first published 1950), Doris Lessing begins with a short description of a crime on a farm in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe):MURDER MYSTERYBy Special CorrespondentMary Turner, wife of Richard Turner, a farmer at Ngesi, was found murdered on the front verand...
I found this excruciating - beautifully portrayed, both characters and place, but bloody depressing. I alternated between pitying and despising the characters. Having avoided Lessing I was pleasantly surprised.
Brazilliant spotted this one...Starting next Thursday (22/9/2011)Have read one Lessing which was not to my particular taste, however I'll give this one a go; can't knock it lest I've tried it!From wiki - The novel starts with a cutting from newspaper article about the death of Mary Turner. It says t...
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