March 2021 Wrap-Up – Elle Thinks
Hahahahaha. Well, that didn’t last: I managed two months of reviewing pretty much everything I read, and then this month, it all went wrong. In my defense, that is because I was reading for, …| Elle Thinks
Hahahahaha. Well, that didn’t last: I managed two months of reviewing pretty much everything I read, and then this month, it all went wrong. In my defense, that is because I was reading for, …| Elle Thinks
The Chilling Chunkster: King Sorrow, by Joe Hill (2025). An 800+-page novel with a propulsive readability that makes it feel like it’s a third that length? What a superb start to my experienc…| Elle Thinks
September was really busy for work, and less busy for academia, although my first peer-reviewed article, about Mary Robinson’s 1792 debut novel Vancenza, is now in the world! It’s in an open-access journal, and can be read for free here if you fancy it. I also caught up with a dear friend I hadn’t seen […]| Elle Thinks
August was a much-needed quieter month after a truly manic beginning to the summer. M and I tend to take the month off from singing, which helped a lot. We spent the extra time doing things like solving crossword puzzles over morning coffee and embarking on favourite countryside walks. A lot of friends had birthdays […]| Elle Thinks
20 Books of Summer is over for another year! Emma and Annabel have been the perfect hosts. I’ve particularly enjoyed the monthly questionnaires that Emma came up with. To mark the end of the project, I’m going to use my usual wrap-up/retrospective format; some of these questions overlap with Emma’s final questionnaire. Time limit: 20 BoS […]| Elle Thinks
Hosted, as always, by Rebecca at Bookish Beck, posting on the last Monday of every month (late this month, sorry). There’s no set formula to this; you can post anything about libraries, whether you’ve recently been to an event at one, heard about an initiative at one, whatever! I use it for rundowns of my […]| Elle Thinks
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (1789): Olaudah Equiano wrote his autobiography as a free man, living in London, but his childhood and youth were spent in slavery. He was captured very young, probably only aged nine or ten, and describes some time spent […]| Elle Thinks
I don’t often do Top Ten Tuesday memes (a once-weekly commitment is Too Much For Me), but That Artsy Reader Girl has been running it for years and this one was just too tempting: the ten longest books you’ve read, by page count. There are many excellent options here—I love a doorstopper, plus my academic […]| Elle Thinks
Nearly finished with this challenge! Here’s the final tranche of 20BoS reading (I’ve got one more to go after this and will consider it alone). These three are all modern classics, all by Asian authors in translation, and all at least loosely concerned with politics, whether that’s the quotidian consequences of racism, the devastating effects […]| Elle Thinks
I’m absolutely determined to have a better 20BoS month in August than in July. It’s started off incredibly well with three rereads, none of which I wrote much about the first time aroun…| Elle Thinks
Hosted, as always, by Rebecca at Bookish Beck, posting on the last Monday of every month. There’s no set formula to this; you can post anything about libraries, whether you’ve recently been to an e…| Elle Thinks
So I did promise myself to take time off from project reading, but all three of these basically fell into my lap at the same time. They all fit nicely into Readers Imbibing Peril, an annual spooky-…| Elle Thinks
