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Category Archives: Books 2010
A Year in Books: 2010
Here are two of the reasons why I blog: 1) I can keep track of things which would otherwise have disappeared through the cracks of time and 2) I am able to detect patterns. Through blogging I can keep track … Continue reading
Books 2010: McCarthy/Dahl
I’m a footnote in an MA dissertation on Glaswegian author Alasdair Gray. I have arrived, dear readers, I have finally arrived! I finished reading Tom McCarthy’s C the other week. It is quite a conventional book despite the breathless reviews … Continue reading
Damaged Sentences
Tom McCarthy’s C is my current commute + night-time reading. Except that I am so scatterbrained at the moment that I only manage a few pages every other day and it is almost due back at the library. Still, I … Continue reading
Books 2010: Faber – The Crimson Petal & the White
In my Copenhagen-dwelling days, one of my greatest pleasures was to tour the second-hand bookshops in search of English-language books. I had a favourite haunt – just around the corner from my home – which had pile upon pile of … Continue reading
Books 2010: Scarlett Thomas – Our Tragic Universe
I am reading a lot at the moment. Scarlett Thomas’ latest novel fell into my lap at the local library and I was happy to take it home with me. I am equally happy to take it back not having … Continue reading
Books 2010: Sarah Waters – The Little Stranger/ Rachel Seiffert: The Dark Room
My first Sarah Waters book was, appropriately enough, her first published novel, Tipping the Velvet. In 2003 I wrote: “..less than the sum of its part, but her evocation of a Victorian London filled with gender-benders and rent boys was … Continue reading
Books 2010: Tóibín – Brooklyn
Last week I finished reading Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn, a quiet novel about a girl who moves from one country to another in order to improve her prospects. I have a lot of time for Tóibín: his novel about Henry James, … Continue reading
Books 2010: Ishiguro, Larsson
As I was reading Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (or Män som hatar kvinnor, Men Who Hate Women, a much preferable title which I shall use forthwith), I kept thinking about my previous read, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never … Continue reading
Knitting & Reading
Meet Larry the Leicester. I am knitting Larry out of British Sheep Breeds DK in Bluefaced Leicester cream and brown. The pattern is Janice Anderson’s free sheep pattern (pdf). I made a slight mess of picking up stitches around Larry’s … Continue reading
Sunnudagr
Life itself has caught up with me, so I am running behind on important things such as answering emails, sorting paperwork and, well, doing the dishes. This weekend I have allowed myself some time off and will be cooped up … Continue reading
