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• New Books and Some DNFs

  

  It’s been a while since I last had a tally up of new books – at least, it feels like a while and I sincerely hope it is, given the number I seem to have... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Pathemata by Maggie Nelson

  

  There is a dominant story of illness that goes something like this: you experience symptoms, and so you visit a medical professional. This skilled person... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Three Things

  

  This comes with thanks to Paula at Book Jotter for her Three Things meme! The Book: Earlier this week I had a sudden yen for a Persephone title and picked up... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Literary Novels About Literary Folk

  

  Over the winter of 1848-9, George Sand brought her lover, Chopin, and her two children to the island of Majorca. She hoped that the climate would benefit the... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE

• 20 Books of Summer

  

  When I returned to blogging last August, everyone was busy reviewing their books of summer and it looked like a lot of fun. So when I saw Annabel posted the... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Journal of a Solitude: Sarton, Rage and Creativity

  

  When May Sarton began writing her Journal of a Solitude she was, at 58, a prolific and popular writer of poems and novels who felt she had been... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Spring Reading Part 2

  

  And so to the non-fiction reads of this spring, so far: I’d read and loved Mangan’s previous book, Bookworm, which was a highly enjoyable trot through the... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Spring Reading

  

  I haven’t been in the mood to write reviews, and I’m conscious that what I am interested in writing – essays and memoir – aren’t a great fit for a WordPress... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE

• We’ll Always Have Paris

  

  Part 3 of the memoir I have been at home only a few weeks of the long summer vacation when a letter arrives for me from A. It is on thin blue paper with an air... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Ambition Monster

  

  “Inside me,” Jennifer Romolini writes, “is a hungry, terrified, security-craving goblin in the presence of whom I feel powerless; an ambitious monster who... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE

• How Things Have Been

  

  Hard to believe, but it’s been very nearly three weeks since my mother died. I think we’re all bearing up pretty well. There were certain conventions around a... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Claire Keegan – So Late in the Day

  

  In a desperate attempt to read at least one book by an Irish writer before the end of the month, I remembered that I had Claire Keegan’s novella – well,... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Reading Roundup for February

  

  So, sadly my mother died last week, swiftly and peacefully when it came to it. I’m not sure how I feel right now, except mostly relieved that she is at peace. Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Elegy for a Fresher

  It’s a golden autumn day with a hopeful blue sky on the 3rd October 1987, when my parents drive me to college for the first time. The car is a capsule containin... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Finally, Some Books! Laura Cumming and Samantha Harvey

  

  On Chapel Sands is essentially a book about subtext in life and art. The two go hand in hand; if we know to look beyond the surface of an image, it’s because... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE

• #Rollercoaster

  You find us at an unusually low point here at casa Litlove, and what follows is not a cheerful post. So if February is being tough on you, you might want to rea... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Colette at Shiny

  

  My review of Michele Roberts’ book, Colette, My Literary Mother, is up at Shiny New Books! I absolutely loved this book, and if you’ve ever read and enjoyed... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A World of His Own

  

  It is the 22nd April 1833 and Hans Christian Andersen is surrounded by a crowd of people come to see him off from the harbour in Copenhagen. This is a... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Book Traffic

  

  It is a truth universally acknowledged that a woman in a difficult situation is in need of some good new books. Well, that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it. Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy

  

  , published in the mid-eighties remains a classic of postmodern writing, despite the fact that Auster dislikes and rejects the term. Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE