Michelle Obama’s “Becoming” -book review
It all started because Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was interviewing Michelle Obama in the Southbank Centre in London, and I really wanted to go. Continue reading Michelle Obama’s “Becoming” -book review
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Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods”- book review
Neil Gaiman’s epic American road trip, full of Norse gods and tricksters Continue reading Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods”- book review
Henry James’s “Princess Casamassima” – book review
When I finished reading this book, I looked at the world in a bemused daze… Continue reading Henry James’s “Princess Casamassima” – book review
Henry James’s “What Maisie Knew” – book review
“Poor little monkey!” (…) the words were an epitaph for the tomb of Maisie’s childhood. She was abandoned to her fate. What was clear to any spectator was that the only link binding her to either parent was this lamentable fact of her being a ready vessel of bitterness, a deep little porcelain cup in which biting acids could be mixed. They had wanted her … Continue reading Henry James’s “What Maisie Knew” – book review
Yara Rodrigues Fowler “The Stubborn Archivist” – book review
Yara Rodrigues Fowler’s The Stubborn Archivist is not strictly speaking a novel. It has much more in common with a piece of poetic prose – and in fact, the first few pages seem almost to be toying with the idea of straightforward poetry – with bold headings and lots of white space surrounding many line breaks. But it manages to engage one’s attention much as … Continue reading Yara Rodrigues Fowler “The Stubborn Archivist” – book review
Nathacha Appanah’s “The Last Brother” – book review
I came across The Last Brother by coincidence and I read it in one breathless sitting. Continue reading Nathacha Appanah’s “The Last Brother” – book review
Top Ten Tuesday: The Ten Most Recent Additions to My To-Read List
Three of my additions are the result of a blip in my New Year’s resolution of buying fewer books… Oops Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: The Ten Most Recent Additions to My To-Read List
Poem of the Week: John Keats “On the Sonnet”
This week’s poem is a sonnet about sonnets (a meta-sonnet, if you like) Continue reading Poem of the Week: John Keats “On the Sonnet”
Poem of the Week: “Sonnet: To Tartar, a Terrier Beauty” Thomas Lovell Beddoes
First of all, the apostrophe “Snowdrop of dogs” is an absolute delight. Continue reading Poem of the Week: “Sonnet: To Tartar, a Terrier Beauty” Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Back to the Classics Challenge 2019
Here’s my list for 2019 Continue reading Back to the Classics Challenge 2019
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