Three more excellent reads for you to think about: A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail – Bill Bryson More than anything in the world right now I want to go bushwalking. I have a fruity French dessert cooling on the bench; a cup of tea beside me; an awesome job [...]
Also taggedThere are two piles of books on my bookshelf — actually, if I was going for strict realism, I would have to mention that these two piles are not alone, that the shelves are crammed full of the damn things, but for the purposes of this discussion, I want to point out that it is [...]
Also taggedHere be readin’s! I’m knee-deep in the pages these days. This is a glorious development, a long way from my Masters’ studies, when the suggestion of reading anything longer than a case study or essay would elicit a terse, ironic chuckle and smothered sobs. I’ve got three (four?) others on the go, which I want [...]
Also taggedBehold I am reading up a storm! Fluttering pages in an ecru foam of erudition! The Beauty Myth – Naomi Woolf A major work in feminist literature, it’s kind of astonishing to realise this book was first published twenty years ago. Truefax – check Wikipedia. Most of the book could have been written in the [...]
Also taggedIt’s page-flickin’ time, yo! The Magic Toyshop - Angela Carter I first fell in love with Angela Carter when I read Nights at the Circus which I recommend to everyone which such fervour that I’m no longer sure where my copy is (if anyone sees it, tell it I miss it and I hope it’s doing well). [...]
Also taggedI looked up collective nouns for books and discovered that “library” and “pile” seemed to be the most common ones. That kind of surprised me: I thought when I was saying “pile” I was being casually vivid and descriptive — “oh, I have a pile of books waiting by the toilet” — but no: it [...]
Also taggedI made bikkies! I went to the library! Apparently I am four years old, because this was enough to make me twinkly-cheeked and rosy-eyed. If you are feeling at all ennui-ed, perhaps a little pallid or blue with the ongoing round of daily life, may I suggest a visit to a library and some bikkies [...]
Also tagged bakingIt’s that time again! I’ve been reading, gorging my brain on others’ leavings, and now I have to burp about it. Portrait in Sepia Oh my God. I first encountered Isabel Allende’s writing while studying: I read The House of the Spirits. And it didn’t blow me away. Beautiful and interesting and unlike anything else [...]
Also taggedI’ve just finished two awesome books and I have to tell you about them! Now! The Secret History by Donna Tartt Holy cow this one is good. I understand it’s Tartt’s first novel and it’s incredible. Six elite Classics students (passionately committed to Ancient Greek) at a Vermont university are involved in an accidental death [...]
Also taggedBecause it wouldn’t be Book Week here at the Cutlery Drawer without me Voicing Some Opinions. The Name of the Rose–Umberto Eco A murder mystery set in a medieval monastery, starring a genius Franciscan friar and his Benedictine novice! There’s sex! Lies! Scandal! Heretics! Whoredom! Politics! The Spanish Inquisition! Shady pasts, dubious futures! Suspect motivations, [...]
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