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What am I reading?: May 2014
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What am I reading? Thursday, 15 May 2014. To the World of Men, Welcome by Nuala ni Chonchuir. To the World of Men, Welcome. By Nuala ni Chonchuir. Published by Arlen House. This is one of the most original collections of short stories I’ve read in a long time. And it’s by an Irish writer. What is it with the Irish and their love of words and stories? These stories are all so good and so different it’s difficult to single any of them out for comment. Each narrator has their own ‘voice̵...Is a poet - w...
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What am I reading?: Virginia Woolf: A Critical Memoir, by Winifred Holtby
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What am I reading? Friday, 25 April 2014. Virginia Woolf: A Critical Memoir, by Winifred Holtby. Virginia Woolf: A Critical Memoir. Published by Continuum International. Drawn from Woolf’s own childhood as the daughter of an eminent scholar and critic living at the heart of literary society. ‘Again and again she was brought down into the drawing room to receive the blessing of some awful distinguished old man who sat apart, all gathered together and clutching a stick’. Than have read To the Lighthouse.
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What am I reading?: To the World of Men, Welcome by Nuala ni Chonchuir
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What am I reading? Thursday, 15 May 2014. To the World of Men, Welcome by Nuala ni Chonchuir. To the World of Men, Welcome. By Nuala ni Chonchuir. Published by Arlen House. This is one of the most original collections of short stories I’ve read in a long time. And it’s by an Irish writer. What is it with the Irish and their love of words and stories? These stories are all so good and so different it’s difficult to single any of them out for comment. Each narrator has their own ‘voice̵...Is a poet - w...
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What am I reading?: December 2013
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What am I reading? Monday, 9 December 2013. After reading Peter May's dark thrillers set in the Hebrides, I was definitely in the mood for more about remote Scottish islands. I bought Amy Sackville's Orkney. A while ago, but (after one or two false starts) I hadn't got round to reading it. The night of the Great Storm over Britain definitely provided the right atmosphere - the TV screens, even in Italy, were filled with images of surging tides and wild winds. I loved Amy's first book, The Still Point,.
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What am I reading?: November 2013
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What am I reading? Wednesday, 27 November 2013. The Blackhouse, by Peter May. The claustrophobic nature of the Hebridean island is perfectly evoked in the novel - you can smell the peat and feel the constant Atlantic wind tugging at your hair. The roots of the crime lie in the nature of the island community, with its gossiping tongues and bleak Calvinist values, as well as strong codes of honour that protect both the innocent and the guilty. The Blackhouse, Peter May, Quercus. Wednesday, 20 November 2013.
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Poems etc.,. Poems etc.,. Newer posts →. Heart Poems for Children’s Heart Week – Day Four. May 15, 2014. PAEDIATRIC CARDIAC LIAISON NURSES. See the British Heart Foundation website for more:. Http:/ www.bhf.org.uk/heart-health/treatment/healthcare-professionals/paediatric-and-guch-nurses.aspx. From the cumbric word. Pen’ meaning hill or head). I did not dream. If the heart might. And this pulse of pen. A hill a head. Were a kind of memory. I put my heart into. Said the nurse,. Eve Lacey is Poetry Editor ...
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What am I reading?: October 2013
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What am I reading? Wednesday, 2 October 2013. Opened Ground: Seamus Heaney. Opened Ground: Poems 1966-199. I love Seamus Heaney's poetry and I have a few scattered collections - Stations, Death of a Naturalist - but I've recently treated myself to this because it covers most of Seamus' collections, from the first in 1966 right up to The Spirit Level in 1996. This gives a wonderful overview of the development of his work and it also includes his Nobel lecture 'Crediting Poetry'. Neither did any gift of to...
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What am I reading?: March 2014
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What am I reading? Saturday, 22 March 2014. Claude Michelet: Firelight and Woodsmoke - worth committing book murder for! This is a great doorstop of a trilogy, which I cut into its three component parts with a Stanley knife and have been carrying around with me on my travels, abandoning each section as I finished it. I’d like to think that they got adopted by a traveller on a train, a curious customer in Costa’s, or a bored passenger at Stansted Airport. The Firelight and Woodsmoke. This blog reflects my...
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What am I reading?: Harvest - by Amanya Maloba
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What am I reading? Wednesday, 20 August 2014. Harvest - by Amanya Maloba. Amanya was a guest on Roz Morris's Undercover Soundtrack blog. And I liked what she said about her book of short-short stories. I don't read much flash fiction - so much of it reads like cryptic jokes you might find in up-market Christmas crackers, or like prompts for a creative writing class. But the best Flash Fiction reads like prose poetry, which I do have a taste for. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Ultimately literature i...
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