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Well, I hope you all had very happy Christmasses. Kirsty Towers seems very quiet now after having family down from Glasgow for a few days. We had a lot of fun, a lot of food, and occasionally rather too much wine – but that’s Christmas for you. I now have pretty much an entire week [...]
Sod The X Factor vs Rage Against the Machine, I think this should be Christmas number 1.
This is another thing I did last year: planning some reading for the two weeks between me finishing work on Friday and going back to work on Monday 4 January. Allowing for the fact that we have family coming to stay with us in Oxford over Christmas, I have picked out two books per week [...]
December 16, 2009 in feminism, fiction, personal, politics
Tagged 2009, books, christmas, cranford, elizabeth gaskell, equality illusion, fawcett society, feminism, kat banyard, mari strachan, poppy adams
Tagged 2009, books, christmas, cranford, elizabeth gaskell, equality illusion, fawcett society, feminism, kat banyard, mari strachan, poppy adams
Behold! It’s Kirsty’s guide to buying for the literary geeks in your life (assuming you’ve already bought them, you know, actual books):
How about a bag made out of a book?
I really, really want this banned books bracelet.
The perfect accompianment to being curled up in a chair with a book. A mug bearing the legend “She [...]
December 11, 2009 in Uncategorized, book news
Tagged books, christmas, games, gifts, jewellry, literary gifts
Tagged books, christmas, games, gifts, jewellry, literary gifts
Well, I hope you all had a lovely festive holiday. Santa was exceptionally good to me, not least on the book front.
Dear Boyfriend bought me three pieces of booky joy: The Victorians (Illustrated Edition) by A.N. Wilson, Bedlam: London and its Mad by Catharine Arnold, and the graphic novel version of A Christmas Carol. From [...]
December 29, 2008 in fiction, history, victorian history, victorian literature
Tagged books, christmas, victorian
Tagged books, christmas, victorian
Right, I’m off home to Glasgow. I will have very little interweb access, so you shall all just have to pine for me.
Merry Christmas!
What would Christmas be without Kirsty MacColl and The Pogues?
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I’ll be away from the interweb for a few days now. See you all after Christmas, and may you all eat, drink, and be merry.
Kirsty x
Elsewhere on the interweb:
I asked my fellow OUPers for their favourite books of 2008
Batgirl demands equal pay (via Feministe)
Also from Feministe: Sorry ladies, but your vagina conflicts with my morals
Yes, I am entering the Times/Waterstone’s Christmas quiz. The prize is £500 of book vouchers. OF COURSE I’m going to enter!
Les Miserables sequel novels are allowed [...]
Do you know, I’m starting to feel a little festive. I think it might have been the mulled cider in my local last night. I’m coming over all Dickensian, and so would love for you all to pop over to the OUPblog, where I have posted the opening section of one of Dickens’s perhaps lesser [...]
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