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
🔻 A little confession... I have picked this book just because of the title (everything with "Paris" attracts my attention) and the cover (a...| klasikfanda.blogspot.com
When I made my original (generously overflowing) list of potential picks for the #20Books of Summer, I forgot to mention that any novel/memoir/experimental piece of work by a translator I know and …| findingtimetowrite
Book #5: Matayoshi Naoki: Spark, transl. Alison Watts, Pushkin Press, 2020 (original published in 2015) The first (and ebook) cover of Spark from Pushkin Press Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, this n…| findingtimetowrite
It’s officially summer and that means it’s time for the 20 Books of Summer Challenge! Emma of Words and Peace and Annabel of AnnaBookBel are leading the challenge, taking over for Cathy…| Nashville Book Worm
