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Right. We could sit here and discuss the merits – or rather, lack of them – of reality TV until the cows come home.
Well, I don’t care how it reached my screen, I could watch this lot as many times as you like. I think they’re marvellous.
Their dancing is fantastic, they’re spell-binding to watch, [...]
Yesterday was a bumper day, bookwise. Not in terms of quantity, but in terms of quality.
I need not go into minute detail for the first special delivery. Allow me just to post this:
Oh yes. I am quite ridiculously excited about this one: Sarah Waters’s new novel The Little Stranger. It shall be my evening reward [...]
Coming soon: a proper blog post! Steady now. In the meantime, however, here’s my pick of the interwebs.
Now that Ruth Padel has resigned as Oxford Professor of Poetry, who should get the job?
Along with the rest of the blogosphere, I have recently become obsessed with Awkward Family Photos.
From The F Word, an open letter to [...]
My blogging has once again been shamefully lax, for which I apologize. Dissertation, dissertation, dissertation. And I’ve been reading a very long book. But I had to come out of self-imposed blog exile to flag up this, which I saw on Scott Pack’s blog today.
The below is from Salt Publishing, a poetry and short story [...]
This might actually be the strangest thing I’ve ever seen. My office-mate, who is from New York, tells me this is well-known in America, but I’ve never heard of it before.
I kind of love it though. Chaaaaaaaarrrr-leeee…..
I’m slightly late to this, seeing as it was in the paper at the weekend, but it’s a good article and worth pointing up.
I recently bought a copy of Elaine Showalter’s last opus, A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx, and this article is in that vein.
When John [...]
May 14, 2009 in fiction, literature, news & media
Tagged american fiction, elaine showalter, women writers
Tagged american fiction, elaine showalter, women writers
Via Bookbrunch, I see that the shortlist for the £10,000 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize has been announced. The prize is awarded to that book which best evokes the spirit of a place. The nominees are:
Pollard by Laura Beatty
The Gate of Air by James Buchan
The Legend of Colton H. Bryant by Alexandra Fuller
Selected Poems [...]
May 12, 2009 in history, prizes, victorian history
Tagged london, Ondaatje Prize, Sarah Wise, victorian
Tagged london, Ondaatje Prize, Sarah Wise, victorian
Excuse me if things are a little sporadic at the moment. We are having the house re-wired, which means a huge amount of disruption. I have also injured my hand, so I’m trying to lay off the typing a bit.
Hopefully normal service should resume by the end of the week.
Kirsty x
Not the TV Book Group
Sun 07 Feb: Brodeck's Report - Philippe Claudel
Sun 21 Feb: The Girl with the Glass Feet - Ali Shaw
Sun 07 Mar: Vanessa and Virginia - Susan Sellers
Sun 21 Mar: The Illusionist - Jennifer Johnston
Sun 11 Apr: Skin Lane - Neil Bartlett
Sun 25 Apr: The Boys in the Trees - Mary Swan
Sun 09 May: A Short Gentleman - Jon Canter
Sun 23 May: Fledgling - Octavia E. ButlerReading Challenge
The Equality Illusion - Kat Banyard
The Women's Room - Marilyn French
Letters from a Fainthearted Feminist - Jill Tweedie
Ideala - Sarah Grand
Singled Out - Virginia Nicholson
Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education - Jane Robinson
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
The Color Purple - Alice Walker-
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