-
Recent Posts
- LIST: A mixed bag
- BOOK TO SCREEN: Pride and Prejudice (2005)
- REVIEW: The Marlows and the Traitor – Antonia Forest
- BOOK TO FILM: Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
- REVIEW: A Civil Contract – Georgette Heyer
- BOOK TO SCREEN: Filming Shakespeare
- LIST: Books to read
- REVIEW: Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry – B. S. Johnson
- REVIEW: Perfiditas – Alison Morton
- REVIEW: Bumped – Megan McCafferty
Blogroll
Book Blogs
July 2022 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Categories
- 2009 New Reads (11)
- 2010 New Reads (44)
- 2011 New Reads (61)
- 2012 New Reads (1)
- 2013 New Reads (17)
- 2014 New Reads (20)
- Adventure (3)
- Biography (1)
- Crime fiction (59)
- Discussion (18)
- Fantasy (58)
- Feminism (8)
- Fiction (197)
- Filmed adaptations (20)
- Historical fiction (23)
- Humour (21)
- Journalism (5)
- Links (5)
- Lists (10)
- Meta-review (7)
- News (2)
- Non-fiction (21)
- Not A Review (18)
- Poetry (3)
- Re-read (34)
- Read in translation (1)
- Read on my Kindle (72)
- Reviews (211)
- Romance (23)
- Science fiction (19)
- Thriller (18)
- Travel (8)
- Uncategorized (7)
Twitter Updates
- @BBCRadio3 @MannGeorgia To follow the Janacek, how about that other grand architectural statement in music, the Gre… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 5 hours ago
- @MannGeorgia @BBCRadio3 To follow Alley Cats, how about Christopher Smart's paean to his cat Jeoffrey, as set by Br… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 week ago
- After binge watching the excellent #SlowHorses, have read a few of Mick Herron's books, and cannot help but think t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 week ago
- RT @AP: The death toll from the earthquake in Afghanistan now stands at 1,150. Some international aid is getting to impacted villages to pr… 1 week ago
- @MannGeorgia @BBCRadio3 How about a Whitman setting, Vaughan Williams' Towards the Unknown Region? 2 weeks ago
Tag Archives: art
The Sarantine Mosaic – Guy Gavriel Kay
(HarperCollins 2011) Sailing to Sarantium (1998) / Lord of Emperors (2000) I’m not sure why I haven’t read more books by Guy Gavriel Kay. Back when I was a student, a friend lent me all three books of the Fionavar … Continue reading
Posted in 2011 New Reads, Fantasy, Fiction, Read on my Kindle, Reviews
Tagged art, assassination, Byzantium, chariot racing, depiction of the god, Guy Gavriel Kay, historical fantasy, intrigue, love, mosaic, myths, politics, revenge, strong women
5 Comments
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
(Oxford World Classics 2008, first published 1927) I’d never read anything by Virginia Woolf before Nymeth’s review of To the Lighthouse inspired me to seek it out (I have a copy of Orlando which I’d tried reading some years ago, … Continue reading
Posted in 2011 New Reads, Feminism, Fiction, Reviews
Tagged art, experimental prose, friendship, growing up, landscape, marriage, multiple points of view, Skye, transition, Virginia Woolf
4 Comments
Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley
This is one of Huxley’s early novels, published after Crome Yellow, and which takes as its subject the fevered neurotics of the 1920s, which he surveys with a mordant eye. Theodore Gumbril, bored pedagogue, is sitting in chapel one day, … Continue reading
Posted in 2010 New Reads, Fiction, Reviews
Tagged 1920s fiction, Aldous Huxley, art, avant-garde, beards, boredom, coincidence, connections, high-brow, inventions, mistaken identity, morals
Leave a comment
‘Tigana’ – Guy Gavriel Kay
(minor spoiler at the end) In the peninsula of The Palm, there are a number of warring city-states – much like Italy in the mediaeval period – with a common language and religion. Sensing weakness, two enemies strike to conquer … Continue reading
The Seventh Sinner – Elizabeth Peters
Elizabeth Peters is well-known for her Amelia Peabody series of archaeological mystery novels set in late 19th and early 20th century Egypt, but she has also written a number of stand-alone novels and other short mystery series. This is one … Continue reading