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Tag Archives: bibliomania
It’s Getting Cold Now
It is premature to write my Reading 2011 entry but I did leave a comment on a newspaper site yesterday about one of my favourite reads so far. I miss keeping a literary blog – but then again my old … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged Art, bibliomania, book art, love, News, personal stuff, politics, Scotland
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Reader, I Knitted The Cardigan
There is a lovely bit in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre where the housekeeper, Mrs Fairfax, says something in the vein of, “Oh, hang on a sec. Must. Finish. This. Row.” I smiled in recognition when I came across it during … Continue reading
Posted in Books 2011, Purls
Tagged bibliomania, Crafty, Literature, love, musings, Purls, reading
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Some Thoughts About Yarn
A long time ago I wrote about books. I remember one specific thing I wrote: how I built my library on the ideas of possibility and potential. My books were purchased because I wanted the possibility of spending a heady … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Personal, Purls
Tagged bibliomania, boo-hiss, musings, personal stuff, self, yarn
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My Big Read
Every so often I come across a list of 100 books – the result of a BBC project called The Big Read in which the British public was asked about their favourite books. The list is being circulated as part … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Literature, Popular Culture
Tagged bibliomania, books, Literature, love, personal stuff, reading
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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
Turning Pages
James Robertson is a writer whose books I enjoy very much, but I do not see him mentioned much. I was surprised and delighted to see a two-page feature on Robertson in The Guardian this past Saturday; the feature coincides … Continue reading
In the Sea of Words
For some odd reason I appear to be catching up with myself at the moment. I am knitting things I queued years ago and I am reading a book I have been meaning to read for at least ten or … Continue reading
Ghosts in the Library
Mooncalf wrote a blog post today which hit home. “I have looked through my books,” she wrote, “and I need to get rid of some of them.” Almost four years ago I uprooted myself from Denmark. I packed twenty-four boxes … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Literature, Personal
Tagged bibliomania, personal stuff, real life, self
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Work As If You Live in the Early Days of a Better Nation
I do not know how many of you have read Alasdair Gray’s excellent dystopian novel, Lanark: a Life in Four Books? It takes place partly in Glasgow and partly in an imaginary Glasgow, known as Unthank. In Unthank the characters … Continue reading
Posted in Alasdair Gray, Literature
Tagged Alasdair Gray, Art, bibliomania, Literature, love, Personal, Print Culture, reading, Scotland
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The Reading Survey
15. What is the most difficult book you’ve ever read? This is being written whilst I’m gritting my teeth: Ben Marcus’ The Age of Wire and String. It’s a very, very short novel. I spent a month reading it. Then … Continue reading
