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Dancing to the Music of Time: Lagging
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Dancing to the Music of Time. Tuesday, 28 April 2009. I seem to have fallen behind rather - thanks for the lack of spoliers below! I'd have to agree that Books Do Furnish A Room is a bit, well, nothing-y really. Although I think the two anecdotes offered as an explanation of the title are the ting that will stick with me from the sequence as a whole (so far at least). You'll be pleased to learn that vol 11 is the raciest of the lot! 2 May 2009 at 14:07. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Dancing to the Music of Time: Tempting fate
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Dancing to the Music of Time. Wednesday, 1 July 2009. 100 pages into HSH and it's not THAT bad. yet. OK, it probably wouldn't take Mrs Erdleigh to predict that it's about to head steadily downhill, what with Widmerpool's appearance with the Quiggin twins on his arm. Actually I've really enjoyed this whole section on the Donners book award. I had dinner with one of the Booker Prize judges recently (I'd drop his name in as subtly as the rest of this anecdote, but in truth I can't remember it!
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Dancing to the Music of Time: On the home stretch
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Dancing to the Music of Time. Tuesday, 23 June 2009. On the home stretch. On Saturday evening, in a bar in Paris as it happens. Popped over on Eurostar. To get away post-final examiners' meeting and the carnage of May Week. Amongst other things I dropped in on Marcel ( avec. Cemetery - he seemed to be doing well (all things considered) and was adorned with fresh flowers for the occasion. Also saw a splendidly silly reconstruction of his cork-lined chambre. Barnes, or at least his protagonist Braithwaite.
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Dancing to the Music of Time: Grrr. Aaaargh.
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Dancing to the Music of Time. Tuesday, 14 April 2009. To misquote Woody Allen, that's. Of my life I'm never going to get back. So I'm not going to spend more days blogging about the wasted days, if you get my meaning. I will say, though, that I actually liked the end of vol 11, even if it took me a few re-readings to work out what had actually happened. In fact, maybe it was *because* it took me several re-readings to work out what had happened. At least it made me *think*. And it had Moreland.
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Dancing to the Music of Time: Not winning any kindly competitions...
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Dancing to the Music of Time. Sunday, 8 March 2009. Not winning any kindly competitions. Finally finished 'The Kindly Ones', which took me rather longer than I had intended. However, the nice thing about bringing up the rear is that I can read back over everyone else's posts and see what they thought. Somewhat surprisingly, you may think (seen as we may generally give the impression that we don't agree on anything at all) I agree more with Will than with Andrew and Elliot about this one.
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Anathema esto: April 2015
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William Garroods blog. Reflects my personal views only. Wednesday, 1 April 2015. Bibliography, March 2015. BOTM: P. Barker, The Ghost Road. P Barker, The Eye in the Door. EM Brent-Dyer, A princess at the Chalet School. AS Byatt, On histories and stories. T Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's. J Huley, A matter of taste: a history of wine drinking in England. O Jones, The Establishment. S Middleton, Holiday. H Saberi, Tea: A global history. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). L'Annee du Temps Perdu.
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Anathema esto: December 2014
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William Garroods blog. Reflects my personal views only. Monday, 8 December 2014. Bibliography, November 2014. BOTM: R. Flanagan, The narrow road to the deep north. G Flynn, Gone Girl. P Mansel, Constantinople: city of the World's Desire. R Mortimer, Dear Lupin: letters to a wayward son. J Norman, Edmund Burke. PG Wodehouse, Cocktail time. So, I've done this already. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. L'Annee du Temps Perdu. Dancing to the Music of Time.
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Anathema esto: Bibliography, 2014
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William Garroods blog. Reflects my personal views only. Thursday, 8 January 2015. So, here's what I said:. Jan - J. Crace, Harvest. Feb - L. Hughes-Hallet, The Pike. March - N. MacGregor, A history of the world in 100 objects. April - D. Hendy, Life on Air. May - P.L. Fermor, Between the woods and the water*. June - B. Wilson, Consider the fork. July - A. Solomon, Far from the tree. August - M. Kundera, Life is Elsewhere. September - D. Brown, Bury my heart at wounded knee*. Which should have won 2013's ...
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Anathema esto: November 2014
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William Garroods blog. Reflects my personal views only. Sunday, 9 November 2014. Bibliography, October 2014 (Booker edition). BOTM: E. Waugh, Men at Arms. J Ferris, To rise again at a decent hour. KJ Fowler, We are all completely beside ourselves. H Jacobson, J. N Mukerjee, The lives of others. A Smith, How to be both. E Waugh, Helena. E Waugh, Officers and Gentlemen. E Waugh, Unconditional Surrender. M Zusak, The Book Thief. The trilogy, it goes without saying, is magnificent. Links to this post.
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Dancing to the Music of Time: Death of death, and Hell's destruction...
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Dancing to the Music of Time. Friday, 27 February 2009. Death of death, and Hell's destruction. Was dark, powerful and yet somehow enjoyable too. This is a very Powellian war, as I think Will commented, with the random coincidences even creeping into the harrowing death scenes. I did, incidentally, enjoy Powell's acknowledgement of the Powellian coincidences, or what he calls "those Nietzschean reoccurances". Completely unsurprised that Pennistone (chap from the train in VB. Incidentally, the line that f...
