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On the shelf – April 2013 | Book Log
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Writing about books, ebooks, reading and other related topics. On the shelf March 2013. The Fencing Master (1988) →. On the shelf April 2013. April 29, 2013. One of Commander Hadfield’s photos from the International Space Station – parts of UK and France – see What the web is for. What the web is for. When even The Guardian. Starts asking its readers for pictures of sleeping dogs. Think about it for a moment: these tweets are coming from an astronaut. He takes pictures of the earth and tweets. Which were...
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On the shelf – November 2013 | Book Log
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Writing about books, ebooks, reading and other related topics. Our Jane Eyre →. On the shelf November 2013. November 28, 2013. Maquette of Kelpie (see Web treasure: The Kelpies) – photo from sculptor Andy Scott’s website. I’ve started keeping one volume at the moment it’s the third one, The Guermantes Way from Proust’s epic of remembering and wondering, In Search of Lost Time. Footnote: November 14 2013 was the centenary of the publication of the first volume, The Way by Swann’s. It had all the usual pla...
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Book Log | Writing about books, ebooks, reading & other related topics | Page 2
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Writing about books, ebooks, reading and other related topics. Newer posts →. An unusual foundation for a love of language and literature. August 30, 2013. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Jeanette Winterson’s recent autobiography. Several months ago I read Jeanette Winterson’s recent memoir/autobiography, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? 2011) and then re-read Edmund Gosse’s autobiography Father and Son. Thou shalt not read fiction. Like Gosse’s childhood, fiction books were not allowed in t...
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Edinburgh highlights | Book Log
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Writing about books, ebooks, reading and other related topics. On the shelf October 2013. On the shelf November 2013 →. November 26, 2013. View from Scottish National Gallery across Princes Street Gardens, November 2013 (photograph: P Jones). A couple of weeks ago I had the good luck to get a few days away in Edinburgh. The Edinburgh Mystery Book Sculptures. I’d read about these back in 2011, and again through 2012. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Books, reading and writers. Exquisite children’s b...
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Reading … | Book Log
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Writing about books, ebooks, reading and other related topics. I thought it would be useful to have somewhere to write about reading itself, not just in relation to reading specific books. For example, there’s Slow Reading. Although as someone points out it’s probably a case of different types of writing requiring different types of reading. And here’s a related article on whether our interaction with the web alters our brain and therefore how we interpret the world. What happened to essential books?
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Our Jane Eyre | Book Log
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Writing about books, ebooks, reading and other related topics. On the shelf November 2013. On the shelf – December 2013 →. December 29, 2013. Charlotte Bronte by George Richmond 1850, National Portrait Gallery, London, used under Creative Commons license [http:/ creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/]. I recently read the19. Century classic Jane Eyre. Although it has plenty of plot twists, part of its brilliance (a sign even of its brilliance? Century novels), proceeds with few he-saids/she-saids as ...
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On the shelf – December 2013 | Book Log
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Writing about books, ebooks, reading and other related topics. On the shelf – December 2013. December 31, 2013. Just before Christmas The British Library announced it was making more than a million images available online through Flickr Commons. Just looking through a few of the screens from the collection I’m struck by what an amazing resource this is, not just in terms of an image source but in terms of inspiring ideas, a real kick-starter for the imagination. Beautiful earth, amazing universe. I love ...