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It’s that time of year again, the papers are full of summer reading suggestions. Everyone and their pet budgie comes out and tells us what they’ll be reading while sunning themselves in foreign climes, whether it be chick lit or Tolstoy. Well, everyone can stop talking about it now, because I think I’ve just found [...]
July 22, 2010 in book thoughts, fiction
Tagged cevannes, fiction, france, rosy thornton, summer, the tapestry of love
Tagged cevannes, fiction, france, rosy thornton, summer, the tapestry of love
As those of you who follow me on Twitter or are friends with me on Facebook will know, I have been in hospital for a few days, which explains my latest blog absence. (Don’t worry, I’m home now and well on the mend.)
Anyway, recently kimbofo asked me to take part in her Triple Choice Tuesday [...]
Look everyone, a blog post! Sorry, time has been getting away from me recently, and something had to give. Blogging it was, unfortunately. I have been reading, albeit slowly, and I’ll be talking about two books I’ve recently finished (both Victorian novels) at a later date. Today I want to talk about E.L. Doctorow’s modern [...]
June 23, 2010 in book thoughts, fiction
Tagged american fiction, e l doctorow, fiction, new york, race, ragtime
Tagged american fiction, e l doctorow, fiction, new york, race, ragtime
The thing about trying to crystalize one’s thoughts on an author as well-regarded as Colm Tóibín, or indeed on a book as littered with plaudits as Brooklyn, is that it is incredibly difficult to find something to say that hasn’t been said a gazillion times before. It’s also very tempting to be simply swept along [...]
Three cheers for Brodeck’s Report by Phillipe Claudel, which has won the Independent Foreign Fiction Award! A worthy winner, in my opinion, and I’m ever thankful to the Not the TV Book Group for prompting me to read it. As you may remember, it was the subject of our first discussion all those weeks ago. [...]
May 14, 2010 in book news, fiction, not the tv book group, prizes
Tagged brodeck's report, fiction, independent foreign fiction award, not the tv book group, phillipe claudel, translation
Tagged brodeck's report, fiction, independent foreign fiction award, not the tv book group, phillipe claudel, translation
Just a short post today to say thanks to everyone who contributed to the NTTVBG discussion on A Short Gentleman by Jon Canter. Good fun was had by all, I think. The next discussion is our last one (sob!), and will be over at kimbofo’s Reading Matters. The book in question is Fledgling by Octavia [...]
May 10, 2010 in blogs, book thoughts, not the tv book group
Tagged blogging, fiction, not the tv book group, orange prize, waterstone's
Tagged blogging, fiction, not the tv book group, orange prize, waterstone's
Welcome once again to Other Stories and the Not the TV Book Group. Since you’ve already been to Jericho when you stopped by for the discussion about Vanessa and Virginia, I thought that today I would show you my old stomping ground: Glasgow.
This photo looks up Byres Road in the West End. While I actually [...]
May 9, 2010 in book thoughts, fiction, not the tv book group
Tagged a short gentleman, fiction, jon canter, not the tv book group
Tagged a short gentleman, fiction, jon canter, not the tv book group
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