Having just finished Scarlett Thomas’ “PopCo”, I find myself longing for non-contemporary novels. I have been reading many books recently but all have all been written within the last thirty years. I long for a different sort of prose, a different perspective. And so I have been looking at my book shelves, thought about the [...]
Karie Bookish
Asides
- Patrick Wolf- Danzing
September 7, 2008Patrick Wolf does Eurovision! (the 2007 offering from Ukraine, worryingly enough)
- 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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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:
- Going Out by Scarlett Thomas
- 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
