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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
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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Book Cover Versions
A good friend of mine wondered if she should read Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (coming later this year to a multiplex near you). I warned her that I found the book unbearably bland, despite its good premise. “If there … 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
Sunday Round-Up
“Is Toíbín’s Brooklyn a chick-lit novel?” ponders the Anti-Room. Oh, but I have Opinions with a capital O. The commentators at The Anti Room mainly regard the novel as being a relationship novel, a novel about families. “An old-school Maeve … Continue reading
SSS + C
Self-Stitched September is going swimmingly despite the lack of updates. It helps that the weather in Glasgow is unpredictable at best, so I get good use out of my woolly projects despite it being early September. SSS also helps me … Continue reading
Linkage & More
My commuting project is zipping along nicely. I’m currently knitting the Larisa scarf for myself in Kidsilk Haze, shade 582 (Trance). The beads are teardrop-shaped beads from The Bead Company. Recently Rhiannon finished knitting Larisa and seeing somebody else’s version … Continue reading
Posted in linkage, Literature, Personal, Purls
Tagged books, Crafty, personal stuff, pop culture
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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
