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• Holiday Diary II

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  Posted on 24 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• My Holiday Diary

  FridayMr Litlove and I make surprisingly good time up the motorway to Yorkshire. In fact we cover 160 of the 170 miles in a couple of hours. Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Holiday!

  You know what? I’m going to throw in the towel rather than bust a gut trying to get my outstanding reviews written.  We’re off on holiday in a few days, Mr... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Flora

  

  In an effort to get through my reviews, a series of short ones starting with Gail Godwin’s latest novel, Flora. Writing from her present position as an elderly... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Thousand Pardons

  

  If you asked me what cocktail of ingredients made up the novels of Jonathan Dee, I would say they were four parts Richard Yates, two parts postmodern hyperreal... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Whiff of Testosterone

  

  Let’s welcome the boys back in, shall we, after their month of enforced exclusion from the reading room! And what better place to start than with the new trilog... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2013 BOOKS

• Women’s Writing Month Wrap-Up

  As a final post after a month of women’s writing, Dark Puss and I considered the experience we’d had and the points that had come out of the discussion on the... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Glaciers

  

  All this month I’ve been looking at books written by women with a particular eye to their gender dynamics. A lot has been said about the progress the Western... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Life’s Legacy

  

  The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D by Nichole Bernier takes place in the summer that followed 9/11, a time of great social fragility when perspectives on risk... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Words To Say It

  

  Ghosting by Jennie Erdal is my third creative non-fiction book, and an elegant, flawless meditation on the deep and surprising levels of our relationship to... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Our Third and Final Book

  

  This was the book that seemed to divide us the most. What Alice Forgot is essentially a genre novel, though quite what precise term would be used to describe it... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2013 BOOKS

• Our First Book

  

  The first book that Dark Puss and I tackled was Marge Piercy’s intense saga from the early 1970s, Small Changes, which we read simultaneously and exchanged... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Reading with Dark Puss

  Several months ago now, Dark Puss and I were having a discussion online about the influence of gender in reading. Dark Puss didn’t believe that there were any... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• New Poetry

  Some of the most criminally unappealing sentences have been written in the service of talking about poetry. Poems are like wine in the way they can lead their... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• That Difficult Next Book

  

  I knew I’d have trouble finding the right book after She Left Me The Gun. What I wanted was something not too long and not too serious, amusing if at all... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• She Left Me The Gun

  

  When I finished this book, I felt that, in an ideal world, it might be good not to read anything else for a week or so. The story was so powerfully told that... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Leopard

  

  was Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s only novel and he wrote it late in life. So late, in fact, that he had no clue it would be published 18 months after his... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Red Book

  

  I would never have read The Red Book if I hadn’t first had my attention drawn by those two whip-smart women at Shelf Love to this article by Deborah Copaken... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Women’s Writing: Some Issues, Old and New

  

  Christine de Pizan, one of the first chroniclers of women’s writingThroughout history, women have written. But it has only been at the far end of the twentieth... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Alys Always

  

  Isn’t it funny how some books slip the reviewing net? In my case, they are so often novels I’ve really enjoyed but which don’t immediately provoke a critical... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE