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. . . written by Tom Cunliffe, of East Sussex, England (to read more about me see my About page).
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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I’ve written frequently about my dislike of the e-book idea. But now Amazon have published details of their new UK version of Kindle with its library of 400,000 books to purchase and over a million for free, is beginning to exert an appeal. But, but, but – what about other shops? What will [...] An article was published in yesterday’s Guardian newspaper with the provocative title, “Feted British authors are limited, arrogant and self-satisfied, says leading academic“. Yes,I think I can live with that! Salman Rushdie and Juian Barnes’ books usually leave me cold, but not so sure about Ian McEwan, who’s written some fantastic books. I’ve never heard [...] Along with Stu of Winston’s Dad’s Blog, I am reading Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes at the rate of 92 pages a week (it will take us ten weeks to complete the book). We are using the acclaimed 2003 translation by Edith Grossman whose Wikipedia entry suggests that she deserves a review of her [...] I was drawn to Rhyming Life and Death when I read on the cover that it reflects on “writing, reading and the elusive chimera of literary posterity” . I have a category of book on this blog entitled “books about books”, and as an avid reader, a new addition to it is a reward in itself. [...] British readers may remember Vitali Vitaliev from his time as Moscow correspondent on David Frost’s 1990s television programme, Saturday Night Clive, and many broadcasts on BBC Radio 4. Vitali was born in the Ukraine, eventually defecting to the West, living in Britain and Australia, and eventually returning to London where he is a successful journalist [...] Like so many English people, I enjoy going to France and experiencing a country very different to my own. I live near a ferry port and often see ships sailing off to cross the Channel and I always experience a touch of yearning to be sailing to the land of good wine and different (I won’t say [...] I am proud to be featured today on kimbofo’s Triple Choice Tuesday where I have selected my favourite book, a book that changed my world, and a book that deserves a wider audience. Alan Furst’s elegantly-written novels about spies in World War II have become must-have acquisitions for this common reader. I say acquisitions but in fact I ordered Spies of the Balkans from the library before they even had it in stock, and I was able to get my hands on one of the eight copies they [...] To Be Read pile This is one of those weeks when although I have been reading at odd moments, I have been so busy with other things – friends, family and voluntary work that A Common Reader has had to take a lesser place in my life. I regret not being able to respond [...] |
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