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• A Challenge

  So what do you think about the gendered nature of reading? Can men and women read the same books and receive them in the same way? Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Winter Games

  

  I’m not sure how many people will follow me if I make allusion to The Producers, a film and a musical about two dodgy producers who fall upon a get-rich-quick... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Examined Life

  

  Best book of the year so far is Stephen Grosz’s compilation of case stories from his thirty years as a psychotherapist, The Examined Life; How We Lose and Find... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Writing About Books: Nick and Zadie

  

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  Posted on 03 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Mr Litlove’s Reading

  

  We still seem to be in a period where everything is unnecessarily fraught. This week my attempts to write another biographical essay have been undermined by... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Audio Heaven

  

  I was so sad to reach the end of The Eustace Diamonds on audio book that I rushed to spend my next audible credit on a 20-hour BBC dramatisation of the full... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Signs of Life

  

  I really think I must give up reading the reviews on Goodreads. There is always at least one that is so misguided, so judgemental that I begin to think readers... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• ‘The Greatest Feminist Novel of the Decade’

  

  When I first started Mimi by Lucy Ellman, I was expecting something completely different. We’re in Manhatten on Christmas Eve, and noted plastic surgeon,... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Hollywood Dreaming

  

  Elsa Emerson dreams of nothing but becoming a famous actress. When this beguiling novel opens, it is 1929 and she is a small girl, living in rural Wisconsin wit... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Quiet

  

  It’s a pity that Susan Cain didn’t publish her book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking about a decade ago; it might have saved m... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Winner and Mini Reviews

  

  And the winner of William Boyd’s Waiting for Sunrise is: Ruthiella!I was very unscientific – I wrote all the names on slips of paper and pulled one out of a bag. Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Giving Things Away

  

  Well, I spoke a little too soon. I’ve had a setback with the anxiety after I heard my son get up in the middle of the night on Monday (early Tuesday) and come... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Wolf Hall

  

  Here’s a fun game: try saying the title of this novel three times out loud, quickly. Still, for an unpronounceable book, it’s done pretty well; it must be one o... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Recovering

  Well, my friends, what I learned these past couple of weeks is that anxiety is a hostage situation. I’ve often written about anxiety on this site, partly for th... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Old Devils

  I am so sorry about the impromptu break that I’ve taken here at the Reading Room. This has been an absolutely horrible week for me, health-wise. Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The (Non)Sense of an Ending

  

  Okay, so now I’ve finally read Julian Barnes’ Booker-winning novella, The Sense of an Ending, and understand what the fuss is all about. Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Findings

  

  Given that the essay can be a performative little genre, the variety hall act of the literary world, I am compelled to grant enormous kudos to Kathleen Jamie fo... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Tigers In Red Weather

  

  I had a naughty, clandestine little affair with this book, reading it when I felt I really ought to be giving my attention to other things, and these turned... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• I’m ‘Lost in the Stacks’!

  You can find me over at Danielle’s blog, A Work in Progress today. I was thrilled when Danielle invited me to take part in her ‘Lost in the Stacks: Home Edition... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Ebooks: Publishing Shoots Itself in the Foot

  I get very tired of misleading headlines in the media, which continues to be biased against the conventional book. On the BBC website the other day there was... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE