Browsing the blog archives for the day Monday, January 5th, 2009

*sigh*

I hate to sound like a bitch and everything, but I just saw this on my daily BookBrunch e-newsletter:
In a deal with Modest! Management and Creative Director Dean Freeman, Hodder Editor Fenella Bates has bought world rights in the autobiography of Leona Lewis. The book will feature more than 100 exclusive, behind-the-scenes photographs by Freeman, [...]

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January 5, 2009 by Kirsty in auto/biography, music, publishing
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January Blues

According to this morning’s Today Programme, scientists have said that today is the most stressful/depressing day of the year. I think someone says that about every second day, but today it’s apparently down to the end of the festive season, money, cold weather, and going back to work. I would like to state here and [...]

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January 5, 2009 by Kirsty in randomness
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Romola – George Eliot (1863)

This is the last book I picked up for the (now thankfully finished) essay on mid-Victorian zealous clergymen. And there can’t be many more zealous than Fra Girolamo Savonarola.
Romola is the story of the eponymous Romola, who lives in fifteenth-century Florence shortly after the collapse of the Medici dynasty. It was inspired by a trip [...]

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January 5, 2009 by Kirsty in book thoughts, fiction, victorian literature
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