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• Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects (2006)

  

  When two girls are abducted and killed in Missouri, journalist Camille Preaker is sent back to her home town to report on the crimes. Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Literature and War Readalong October 28 2013: Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman

  

  I’m very late in announcing this month’s readalong title. Vasily Grossman’s Everything Flows isn’t a war novel per se. It’s a post war novel. Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Venetian Impressions

  

  I’m back from Venice and still processing. A lot of what I saw was just the way I remembered it, a lot was better, many things were worse. I don’t think I’ve... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Alexander Baron: There’s No Home (1950) Literature and War Readalong September...

  

  Alexander Baron was once known as the great British novelist of WWII, but since then he’s been somewhat forgotten. Three of his novels are “war novels”.  There’... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Announcing German Literature Month III – November 2013

  

  Lizzy and I are delighted to be making this announcement and we hope you’re happy to hear it.  The tweets of others as early as January of this year looking... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Jeanette Winterson: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (2011)

  

  In 1985 Jeanette Winterson’s first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It was Jeanette’s version of the story of a terraced house in... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Jane Austen: Persuasion (1818)

  

  After having read Mansfield Park and liking it so much (as you can see here) I decided to read Persuasion, which has been mentioned by so many in the comments a... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Kelley Armstrong: Omens (2013) The Cainsville Trilogy I

  

  I always meant to return to Kelley Armstrong’s Women of the Otherworld series, but when I saw she has a new series out, which is a real departure from her dark... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Jane Austen: Mansfield Park (1814)

  

  I’m nearing the end of my Austen journey. Now that I have read Mansfield Park, I’ve only got Persuasion and her short fiction left. I was surprised to like... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Simon R. Green: Ghost of a Chance (2010) A Ghostfinders Novel

  

  Well, well. Or rather – not well at all. As  much as I enjoyed – in a guilty pleasure kind of way – the first of Simon R. Green’s Nightside novels (as you can... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Anne Rivers Siddons: The House Next Door (1978)

  

  This summer I was suddenly in the mood to read ghost stories and haunted house stories. Looking for books to read I came across Anne Rivers Siddons The House... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Literature and War Readalong September 30 2013: There’s No Home by Alexander...

  

  I discovered Alexander Baron’s There’s No Home  thanks to Guy who read an article about this forgotten author a while back. Reading the beginning of the... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Philippe Claudel: Grey Souls – Les Âmes Grises (2003) Literature and War...

  

  Philippe Claudel’s Les Âmes grises – Grey Souls is a crime novel set during WWI and a few years later. The narrator whose identity we do not know for a very lon... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• It’s Time For R.I.P. VIII

  

  I’m always in the mood for Carl’s R.I.P., but this year even more so than ususally. I have collected tons of “rippish” reads all through summer, even started a... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Shannon Hale: Austenland (2007)

  

  I’m in an Jane Austen mood these days. I started Mansfield Park a week ago and really like it. Much better than most of the other Austen novels I’ve read so far... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• J.G. Ballard: The Drowned World (1962)

  

  Ballard is an author I’ve always wanted to read, but I was never sure which novel to pick first, so I postponed reading him again and again. Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Erich Kästner: Going to the Dogs. The Story of a Moralist – Fabian. Die...

  

  Going to the Dogs: The Story of a Moralist is set in Berlin after the Wall Street crash of 1929 and before the Nazi takeover, years of relentlessly rising... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• John Banville: Ancient Light (2012)

  

  ‘Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.’ In a small town in 1950s Ireland a fifteen-year-old boy has illicit meetings with a... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• “The Term Literay Fiction Has Been Invented to Torment People Like Me” – John...

  

  I can only speak for myself but I feel pretty much the same as Updike and mostly agree with the full quote below which is taken from an interview with Lev... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Literature and War Readalong August 30 2013: Grey Souls by Philippe Claudel

  

  I wanted to read Philippe Claudel since years and looking for a WWI novel I came across his Grey Souls – Les âmes grises. Like most of his other books the... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE