Georgia Scott's review of This Sporting Life (original) (raw)
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Georgia Scott's Reviews > This Sporting Life
People make love how they live. The meticulous pay attention to detail. The sensible don't fuss the small stuff. There are as many ways as there are people. What lovers cannot do is escape themselves.
Arthur Machin is a rugby player. To make a living, he runs into walls of human flesh. He loses six front teeth in the opening pages, but greater losses lie ahead. When he falls for a widow with two young children, tougher walls than skin and bones block his way. Grief and anger at the factory death of her husband toughens Margaret Hammond from ever loving again.
Rugby may be played at Eton College, but in this northern English town, it's not a game. It's a way out of factories - in the author's case, mines - or so it seems at first. Some mines are of the heart. Dark and closed, they remain as hard as rock. Margaret Hammond is a match for Arthur Machin in more ways than one. Read it or watch the film here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZbnr....
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Reading Progress
September 2, 2023 –Started Reading
September 2, 2023 – Shelved
September 5, 2023 –19.37% ""The game started with a brawl and didn't develop. I was more or less alright .... Miners if nothing else are strong. Trying to miss their fists and boots was dancing in between raindrops.""
September 6, 2023 –57.31% ""It was as if one side of her wanted me to rely on her, and the other was terrified of the responsibility. She was frightened of committing herself, and so she just went on pushing me off, hurting herself as much as me, and building up a fire and pain between us that neither of us knew how to handle." This is steaming. Glad I stuck with it."
March 1, 2024 –Finished Reading
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