What’s Bred in the Bone (1985) by Robertson Davies, No 2 in The Cornish Trilogy. Penguin Books, 2011 (1991). ‘That alchemy is a pretty kind of game Somewhat like tricks o’ the cards to cheat a man With charming.’ — ‘The Alchemist’ (1610) by Ben Johnson. This, the absorbing central title in Robertson Davies’s Cornish … Continue reading The Alchemical Master| Calmgrove
Environmental campaigners and ego-tripping capitalists clash in Eleanor Catton’s Birnham Wood. It sounded promising but it’s largely a promise unfulfilled. Birnam Wood — the portable forest that heralds the fall of Macbeth — is the name of an “activist collective” based in Christchurch, New Zealand. They’re guerrilla gardeners in essence; taking over waste public land […]| BookerTalk
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Doctor Who: Planet of Fire by Peter Grimwade Another fifth Doctor Target novel that I recall seeing at multiple WaldenBooks, but that I never added to my collection back in the day. Part of that could be that no printed … Continue reading →| Nashville Book Worm
pop music, biography, autobiography| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Empire, colonialism, Britain, British history, world history| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Running, race, class, gender, education, poverty, Birmingham| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
I lost count a little bit while packing books, moving, finding books on my Kindle, but I think I’m nearing the end of my 20 Books of Summer (having read a few not on the original list as well). These three latest ones were all on my list, and had been buried on my Kindle … Continue reading #20Books of Summer and #WITMonth: #16-18| findingtimetowrite
🗻 As forty-something Lucy Cottrel, who's been boring with city life of London, received an unexpected invitation to spend summer at a Swiss...| klasikfanda.blogspot.com
Midway through The Vacation, I was intrigued enough by the characters and situation to be tempted to use AI to determine answers about the twists to come. Alas, the audiobook is new enough that ans…| Nashville Book Worm
🧄 This short book is an essay written by Jean-Claude Izzo, a native Marseilles poet and writer. The main theme of the essay are his love of...| klasikfanda.blogspot.com
