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Monthly Archives: March 2012
The power of a great title
March 27, 2012 – 9:40 am
Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio
by Amara Lakhaus
translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein
This book is clever, funny, insightful, serious and lighthearted all at once. I bought it on the back of a glowing review I read somewhere (possibly Eva of A Striped Armchair? Sorry I’m not sure on that) and am so glad that I discovered both an excellent book and a very interesting new publisher to me…
When real life gets terrifying
March 24, 2012 – 9:20 am
Some Other Rainbow
by John McCarthy and Jill Morrell
When I was visiting my parents the other weekend, I spotted this on the bookshelves. I had been meaning to read it since my Mum bought it shortly after publication but somehow hadn’t got round to it. Since then I have become a fan of John McCarthy as the host of BBC Radio 4′s excellent programme Excess Baggage so I thought I would take a trip back to the events that made John a household name for a few years in my youth…
11 random things about me
March 21, 2012 – 9:59 pm
Whenever I get tagged by one of these things, I am torn. I have an age-old hatred of chain letters (remember when they were actual letters and you were expected to write the whole thing out 10 times?) but I like to learn more about my fellow bloggers and have no problem with sharing more about myself…
The joy of reading
March 18, 2012 – 3:30 pm
The Complete Polysyllabic Spree
by Nick Hornby
This book looked and sounded like fun with a literary bent, which was exactly what I needed after a few non-absorbing reads in a row…
Weekend breaktime
March 16, 2012 – 7:38 pm
I can’t get this song out of my head since I first heard it earlier this week, so here is an earworm for you…
On the brink of getting old
March 15, 2012 – 6:50 pm
Break of Day
by Colette
translated from French by Enid Mcleod
I found this book both beautiful and uplifting, and painstakingly slow and even dull. Which is probably why I had started and abandoned it once before. I’m glad I gave it another go…
Bloggiesta: coming soon
March 12, 2012 – 7:25 pm
Bloggiesta is a blogathon that is all about working on your blog. I have watched it from afar the past two years and this year I’ve decided to plunge in and be a joiner…
Today x, y and z came to visit
March 11, 2012 – 4:41 pm
The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street:
Letters between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952–73
edited by John Saumarez Smith
This is the first collection of Mitford letters that I have read, after a couple of years of build-up, and I must confess that I feel a little bit let down…
Codes and spies and stuff
March 6, 2012 – 6:55 pm
The Thirty-Nine Steps
by John Buchan
Reading this book appealed because I love the Hitchcock film and I was looking for a couple of short books to read before embarking on 1Q84…