I 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, [...]
Also tagged book week“I only want to look at it.” “No, you’re going to look at it. You’re going to rifle through it and thumb the pages.” “Well…it’s a free country.” “What about me? What about us?” “Us? What ‘us’ do you mean? We just hook up sometimes. It’s not a serious thing.” “So I’m just for when [...]
Also tagged book weekAt my place of employment, we have a Book Exchange. It’s a tricky sticky trap. Three shelves in the library dedicated to the guilt-free donation and collection of books and magazines. At first I was delighted because it was somewhere to offload a whole lotta books I had that I no longer wanted. Then I [...]
Also tagged book weekI know many people who love books. I know many many many people who love reading, and some of those people also love books. But not everyone who loves reading loves books in the way that the people who love books love books. Ya dig? I’m talking about the folks who’ll buy anything in a [...]
Also tagged book weekI realise I may have plunged into Book Week without addressing a key issue: how to read. First, get a book. Then read it. Stop every now and again to eat, sleep or empty your bladder (why not all three?) and then keep going until you get to the end of the book. You’ll know [...]
Also tagged book weekI am officially declaring Book Week here at the Cutlery Drawer! I read. Not as much as I want to, but a lot. I read articles, essays and blogs; I read plays and poetry; I read short stories and novels. I love talking about books with people and finding out what they’re reading. I love [...]
Also tagged book weekI finished reading the Narnia series, which was so annoyingly Rule-Brittania that I was at risk of coming to hate English literature. The antidote was to get some really tasty English reading at the same time: enter the pipe, the violin, the doctor, the cocaine, the Hound: enter Sherlock Holmes. Prompted by Eddy Webb’s essays [...]
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