Grammar with Connie

📕 The Only Story by Julian Barnes It's his second novel I've read, I like it better than the first, and I'm looking forward to the third. This novel starts with the sentence. Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more, or love the less, and suffer the less? Paul meets Susan at a tennis club for the first time. She is different from others. He's against social convention and becomes attr..

📕 The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes It is a story of an ordinary old man whose past and present relate Adrain Finn, his coming-of-age friend, and Veronica, his ex-girlfriend at college. One day Tony Webster, the narrator, gets a letter including five hundred pounds and two documents from a solicitor, out of the blue. It is Veronica's mom who left them for him and he finds it very puzzling ..

📕 Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom One of the good things about the pandemic is that it gives me the chance to enjoy recycling the old books I used to read back in my 20s or 30s. Tuesdays with Morrie, just like a good old friend I had lost touch with, came over to me that way once again. My love of novels was no exception even back then and I wasn't really into non-fiction stories but this bo..

📕 Diary of a Wimpy Kid # 01 Greg Heffley’s Journal - by Jeff Kinney It's the third book picked by my book club. I dare say it's one of the funniest books I've ever read but I'm afraid it's not so easy to read as I expect it would. I'm not talking about the story but about so many colloquial expressions in it that I'm never used to. It's a JOURNAL (not a DIARY😉) of an early teenager and there are..