Heard sung outside on the street at around 9am: I do, I do, I do believe in faeries…
I finished reading Cormac McCarthy’s excellent The Road yesterday. Its sparse, exquisite prose reminded me of Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead as did the preoccupation with love and tenderness. However, while Gilead is about a place and staying there, [...]
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Asides
- Bulgakov Goes Glasgow
August 26, 2008Franz Ferdinand - Love & Destroy - inspired by Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master & Margarita (which you should absolutely read).
- First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
August 22, 2008Gorgeous version by Kira Skov and Marie Fisker.
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- Bulgakov Goes Glasgow
Now Reading
Planned books:
- Old Men in Love by Alasdair Gray
Current books:
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An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
Recent books:
- Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks by Christopher Brookmyre
- Arabella by Georgette Heyer
- Wait Until Midnight by Amanda Quick
- The Devil in Amber: A Lucifer Box Novel by Mark Gatiss
- The Calligrapher by Edward Docx
