Margaret R Kelly

Margaret R Kelly – Writer & Travelling Raconteur 

I write. I travel. I read. I learn. I dream and I live my dream.

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  • THE LOVED ONE: EVELYN WAUGH

    THE LOVED ONE: EVELYN WAUGH

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    Margaret Kelly
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    GENRE: SATIRICAL COMEDY It was through reading this book published in 1948 that I learned of the existence of and sheer power of satire to engage the brain in a tug-o-war between laughing and observing conventions. Double entendre entered my naive farmgirl world, as did euphemisms, the concept of a love triangle and juxtaposition. Thanks…

  • RETURN OF THE NATIVE: THOMAS HARDY

    RETURN OF THE NATIVE: THOMAS HARDY

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    Margaret Kelly
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    GENRE: CLASSIC TRAGIC BRITISH LITERATURE This book was a so-called classic— one of the books they ‘make you read’ at school that everybody loves to hate. I, however, loved it. I recently reread it because I couldn’t remember why and became lost in the description of the bleakness of Egdon Heath, which was in itself…

  • ON WRITING: A MEMOIR OF THE CRAFT: STEPHEN KING

    ON WRITING: A MEMOIR OF THE CRAFT: STEPHEN KING

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    Margaret Kelly
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    Welcome to my first book review. I have two confessions to make up front. The first is that my greatest introversion-driven two-pronged aspiration has been, for over sixty years, to be a writer and to live in a ‘chambre de bonne’—a garret room with a view over Paris. There’s a picture of me somewhere on…