I’ve read a lot of “substantial” books lately and for light relief, I planned to read two disaster books this summer – heck, we all deserve entertainment from time to time. What’s the point of being a reader if you can’t occasionally experience the page-turning momentum of a real thriller? The only problem is that [...]
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It consists of book reviews and more general articles about reading and currently receives over 10,000 unique visitors each month. So far 288 book reviews have been published. My currently-reading shelf:  This website is archived for posterity in the British Library's UK Web Archive 
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Slightly Foxed magazine (strapline: “the real reader’s quarterly”) consists of reviews and articles on largely out of print books. Each issue is a sort of journey of rediscovery. A typical article would cover a mid-20th century writer who was acclaimed at the time but is now largely forgotten. Sometimes the magazine goes further back in [...] I apologise to anyone who has received multiple updates for this post in Google Reader and other feed readers. I have experienced technical problems following a software upgrade which I have now fixed. I’ve been meaning to publish a of The Crimson Petal and The White (hereafter referred to as TCPATW!) for some time but [...] Imagine an elderly uncle dying in Venezuela leaving you his fortune. You fly to Caracas to tie things up only to discover that your uncle has appointed as executor of the will, a businessman you have never heard of before, who professes a desire to settle things as quickly as possible but then adopts every [...] I’m diverging from my usual topics today to publish something that is of mainly local interest to those who live in the county of Sussex in the South of England. My own history with Sussex goes back a long time. I first moved to the county at the age of 23 when I took a [...] One of the purposes of reading is to give you an insight into other worlds, to help you understand what its like to be someone else, in a situation entirely different to your own. People without that curiosity have no need to read, and books like Settlement would be for them pointless. After all, [...] I enjoy reading novels with a culinary theme, such as John Lanchester’s The Debt to Pleasure, Muriel Barbery’s The Gourmet, James Hamilton Paterson’s Cooking with Fernet Branca and quite a few others. I am not sure why so many of these books have a humorous side to them – is it that the authors see [...] We have just come back from The Black Forest, having driven across France from Dieppe to Strasbourg and then into Germany, staying for a week in a very comfortable rented house in Titisee-Neustadt – a place I would recommend to anyone who appreciates wonderful scenery and all the facilities of a lakeside resort. Before I [...] Thanks to everyone who visited while I was away in Germany. I did a lot of reading and have taken plenty of notes for future reviews. Now on to today’s book, Stone in a Landslide by Maria Barbal. Spanish Catalonia has a very distinctive culture of its own, with its own language, Catalonian, and many [...] |
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