A quick summer reading update: I suspect that many of you would enjoy Richard C. Morais’ The Hundred-Foot Journey which follows a young boy from bustling Mumbai to rural France (with a short stop in London)…
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I’ve been holding out on you, but that’s because I’ve been travelling and having a tough enough time keeping up with one blog, never mind two. I do have some recommendations for great reading, though,…
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St George slays the dragon on the front façade of Eglise St. Croix here in Bordeaux. I was pleased to come across the sculpture just after I began reading W.G Sebald’s remarkable long prose poem,…
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I just turned the last page of Kate Atkinson’s Life after Life and closed the book, and I must say it’s the most satisfying — and intriguing — novel I’ve read for some time. The novel’s…
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I’m finally beginning to move back into more serious reading, savouring Anne Carson’s Red Doc> a few pages at a time. I’ve Tweeted a few favourite passages of that book for #todayspoem, Vicki Zeigler’sbrilliant Twitter…
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