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One of the books I am most looking forward to reading soon is Natasha Walter’s forthcoming book Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism. My copy is pre-ordered! Seven days to go!
Kira Cochrane interviewed her for The Guardian a couple of days ago:
Walter and her partner have two children, Clara, nine, and Arthur, one, and it [...]
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January 28, 2010 in book news, feminism, news & media, politics, women's history Tagged feminism, guardian, living dolls, natasha walter
Well that was a bit of a shocker – Colm Toibin was the odds on favourite to take home the overall Costa Book Prize last night, but it went instead to Christopher Reid for his poetry collection A Scattering. Very many congratulations to him!
Although I haven’t read the collection – and indeed, I don’t read [...]
January 27, 2010 in book news, poetry, prizes
Tagged a scattering, christopher reid, colm toibin, costa book awards, poetry
Tagged a scattering, christopher reid, colm toibin, costa book awards, poetry
I mentioned the other day that it was a coincidence that just when I’d started reading Muriel Spark’s 1961 classic The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, I saw an article about inspirational teachers. Well, doesn’t that just go to show that I had no idea what the novel was really about, and no, I’ve never [...]
January 25, 2010 in book thoughts, education, fiction
Tagged fiction, muriel spark, scottish fiction, the prime of miss jean brodie
Tagged fiction, muriel spark, scottish fiction, the prime of miss jean brodie
So, as I said in my post this morning introducing the Not the TV Book Group, each of the four of us chose four books, which were then whittled down to two each this afternoon. We each told you we’d be back later today with the list of books, and now I can – along with my [...]
January 24, 2010 in blogs, fiction, not the tv book group
Tagged blogs, fiction, not the tv book group
Tagged blogs, fiction, not the tv book group
I was thinking to myself only the other day there that it’s a long time since I was in any kind of book group, online or off. There was a short-lived attempt by a small groups of friends and I some years ago that lasted one, rather wine-fuelled meeting (or was it two? I can’t [...]
January 24, 2010 in blogs, fiction, not the tv book group
Tagged blogs, books, not the tv book group
Tagged blogs, books, not the tv book group
Sometimes it is the simplest things that have the biggest impact. Sometimes, and I say this without meaning to sound cloyingly sentimental about the innocence of children, it is a child’s eye view of the adult world that brings home how complicated life can get without you meaning it to.
Gwenni Morgan, the heroine of The Earth [...]
January 22, 2010 in book thoughts, fiction
Tagged fiction, mari strachan, the earth hums in b flat, welsh
Tagged fiction, mari strachan, the earth hums in b flat, welsh
I finished The Earth Hums in B Flat last night. I loved it, and will be writing a post on it very soon. The book I started next, though, is a bit of a 20th century classic, and I can’t believe I’ve never read it before: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark.
It’s [...]
January 19, 2010 in education, feminism, fiction, news & media, politics
Tagged afghanistan, education, feminism, inspiration, muriel spark, teaching, the prime of miss jean brodie, women's writing
Tagged afghanistan, education, feminism, inspiration, muriel spark, teaching, the prime of miss jean brodie, women's writing
I’ve been having trouble reading again. I’m not sure why. I decided that the only thing for it was to have a literary “re-set”: put aside the two or three things I have started reading since the beginning of the year, and try something else entirely.
I started The Quincunx at the very end of December, [...]
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