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I like to read books set in a place I am visiting, so while in Bangladesh I read A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam. This is the story of Rehana, a widow, and her fight to keep her children, with her and then alive. It is set in 1971, the year when Bangladesh, then East Pakistan, [...] There have been no posts for a couple of weeks because we have been away: visiting husband M in Dhaka, Bangladesh where he is working, then staying with friends in Dubai on the way back through. Dhaka is not a normal family half-term destination and I think some of the playground mums considered me mad to [...] In The Times of Tuesday 5 January 2010, Anna Shepard wrote an article entitled Keep calm and carry on. It discussed the benefits of carrying your baby in a sling, especially for fathers. I certainly don’t object to this, but I did feel there were disparaging comments about mothers who put young babies in prams. [...] While the country was paralysed due to snow, book club met to discuss Rape of the Fairy Country by Alexander Cordell. This had been suggested by D who was introduced to AC’s books by her mother. Rape of the Fair country is the first of a trilogy following the lives of the Mortymer Family. While the [...] |
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