Mr Fox
by Helen Oyeyemi
This is a strange and beautiful book. It has disjuncts that cannot be explained but somehow the whole works anyway…
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Monthly Archives: May 2012
What idiocy, to be racing into this story and its labyrinths
May 29, 2012 – 9:51 am
Enduring Love
by Ian McEwan
This is a story of love in all its forms, and both how painful and how uplifting that love can be. It also manages to be a compelling thriller, beginning with an event that sets wheels in motion for a series of misfortunes, building up to a dramatic climax…
Musical interlude: When your mind’s made up
May 24, 2012 – 7:38 am
I’m still getting back into the swing of reading after a bad couple of weeks so in the meantime here is a lovely chilled song for a summer’s day…
Sunday Salon: Happiness
May 20, 2012 – 12:11 pm
For no special reason and after a bit of a rubbish week, today I am feeling good. Really truly happy. Which is nice…
I may break a few rules
May 17, 2012 – 5:39 pm
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
The first book in the Philip Marlowe series (though not the first I’ve read) this blackly funny story of the darker side of LA confirmed my love for Chandler and his purple prose. I read it for book club, which led to a hilariously highbrow conversation about what has never aspired to be more than pulp fiction. But it’s good pulp fiction…
This place will lend you books for free
May 15, 2012 – 5:41 pm
The Library Book
edited by Rebecca Gray
This collection of essays, musings and stories about public libraries has been compiled in support of the Reading Agency‘s library programmes. Which is definitely a cause I can get behind. They are all big names, from Zadie Smith to Alan Bennett to Susan Hill to Stephen Fry, but sadly the levels of enthusiasm and quality are a little variable…
Sunday Salon: Here comes the sun
May 13, 2012 – 1:08 pm
I’m back! I didn’t post last weekend because I was in London visiting friends. We did karaoke, watched films and chilled together, plus I bought too many books. And now I can ask you all which of the two Joss Whedon films currently out do you prefer? I vote Cabin in the Woods but they are both excellent, of course…
Memories that approached, invading my body
May 8, 2012 – 6:29 pm
The Seamstress
by María Dueñas
translated by Daniel Hahn
This novel (which is titled The Time In Between in some countries) is one of those where a lot happens later in the book and I am torn about how much to reveal. I don’t think the story hinges on these plot points, but I have a general policy to not give away plot details. So I’ll do my best but…
All these books that I have
May 7, 2012 – 6:28 pm
I don’t usually do incoming books posts because most weeks it would be a bit dull. I have been trying for a long while now to buy fewer books than I read, in the vain hope that my TBR will start to look a bit more manageable. However, these past few weeks I seem to have new (to me) books coming out of my ears. Which is nice.