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LATEST ARTICLES ( 399 )

• Good Grief, Life Keeps Happening!

  

  So much for that new blogging leaf, right? But anyhow, lots of catching up to do and we’ll begin as ever with that titan of domestic anecdote, Mr Litlove. Have ... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Watch Me Turning That New Blogging Leaf

  These past few weeks, I’ve made a new friend. It so happened that, in an idle moment in the weeks running up to Christmas, I clicked on one of those... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Top Ten Books of 2016

  

  I wasn’t going to do one of these lists – for the first time in ten years of blogging – because I have read so little this year. Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Glad Tidings (For Those Fed Up Of The News)

  

  Whether you celebrate Christmas or not, I imagine most people are looking forward to some festive holidays of one kind or another. Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• New Shiny and News

  

  Our Christmas Edition of Shiny New Books is live today! Do go on over and decide what you want to unwrap under the tree this year… The BookBuzz section is rathe... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Self-Sabotage of the West

  I suppose the thing is, it’s hard to live a good life. It’s energetically demanding to keep negative emotions at bay, to remain open and inclusive, to feel read... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Stranger Than We Can Imagine

  

  What a difference a century makes! Back in 1900 the streets held mostly horse-drawn carriages, you could die from a simple infection and if you wanted to... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Shiny 12!

  

  Yes, it’s that time again – the latest edition of Shiny is available here. Thanks to my eye issues, I haven’t got many reviews in this one, and the books I... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Trump, Clinton, the Media and Sexism

  Watching the Presidential election campaign from three thousand miles away is undoubtedly very different to being in America in the midst of it all. Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Shiny 11 is Out!

  

  Yes, a new edition of Shiny is always a cause for celebration, so, pop your slippers on, get into a comfy chair with snacks to hand and turn your mobile off. Th... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• It’s Been A Strange Sort Of Week

  

  And it began with Mr Litlove discovering a Pokemon gym right outside our house. At first, he’d thought there was some sort of youth convention taking place in... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• New Books and Rediscovered Old Ones

  

  So, I have fallen off the wagon, and spectacularly too. You may recall that I was not meant to be buying books this year. Up until a couple of days ago, that wa... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• In Which My Mother Helps Me Consider What’s Important

  By what guidelines do you think we are judging good and bad, right and wrong, at this moment in Western society? I found I was asking the question in the wake o... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Want To See What Mr Litlove’s Been Doing?

  

  I have been longing to show you the new desk that Mr Litlove has been making me, and for several weeks it’s been almost there but not quite. Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Where Do We Go From Here?

  After the chaos comes the entrenchment. It’s the natural swing of the pendulum. There were a few days when the earthquake of the vote threw up some of those rea... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Few Words on Brexit

  As we were doing the supermarket shop this morning, we kept coming back to the subject, couldn’t quite leave it alone. I will admit that I am not dealing with i... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Two Apologies

  

  I have been a terrible book blogger this year and whilst I owe apologies all round for visiting so infrequently and not replying to comments (I do hope for... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Being Right Is An Emotion

  The following is a post I wrote much earlier in the week, but I’d decided not to publish it because I felt.. oh I don’t know, like I didn’t want to get... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Other Part of the Reason…

  

  Why I’ve been quiet, is to be found here at the wonderful Numero Cinq. I’ve been writing about one of my favourite French authors, Patrick Modiano, whose name... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• And Finally, Some Reviews

  

  If you’ve been wondering where I’ve been (though I expect you have much better things to think about), then a partial answer is: writing for Shiny. Yes! Shiny... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE