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2021

Reclaiming the life of Monica Jones @ShinyNewBooksoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2021
“… the disloyal message of her eyes and lips.” #FarMoreThanFiction #WomenWriters #BLWomenWriters @BL_Publishingoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2021
Kissing May goodbye and thinking about June! ;Doriginal ↗
31 May 2021
“…being a bit more Baudelaire…” – Sylvia Plath’s adventures in Paris @Mr_Dave_Haslamoriginal ↗
28 May 2021
The shining stars of the City of Light – over @ShinyNewBooksoriginal ↗
27 May 2021
“… some girls are so silly…” @spikenard65 #fmmayororiginal ↗
25 May 2021
A book of inspiration for ‘grammar vigilantes’!! #hyphensandhashtags @NonFictionessoriginal ↗
21 May 2021
“I believe…that the future belongs to ghosts…” #maelrenouard @NYRB_Imprintsoriginal ↗
18 May 2021
Some thoughts on Daphne du Maurier for #DDMreadingweekoriginal ↗
14 May 2021
“..it was secret and nobody could trick her out of it.” #Zilberbourg2021 #LikeWateroriginal ↗
12 May 2021
“…you’ve made the world…” @sublunaryeds #rilkeoriginal ↗
10 May 2021
“Love is but a luminous point…” #adolphe #benjaminconstant @riverrunbooksoriginal ↗
7 May 2021
Drama, humour and mystery in the early days of the war! #BLCC @BL_Publishing @medwardsbooksoriginal ↗
4 May 2021
April reading – and whence May??original ↗
1 May 2021
“My body was alive with the sounds…” @FitzcarraldoEds #fiftysoundsoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2021
A disappointing excursion to the Channel Islands… :(original ↗
26 Apr 2021
On My Book Table… 11 – regrouping!original ↗
22 Apr 2021
#1936Club: the ones that got away – and where next…?original ↗
19 Apr 2021
#1936Club – “…money, like murder, will out.” #georgeorwelloriginal ↗
18 Apr 2021
#1936Club – a witty and entertaining novella from a legendary Japanese author… #tanizakioriginal ↗
17 Apr 2021
#1936Club – some short stories by a Russian prose master #nabokovoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2021
Exploring British modernism – over @ShinyNewBooks :Doriginal ↗
15 Apr 2021
#1936club – a favourite pair of authors write a very unusual book… #ilfandpetrovoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2021
#1936Club – a guest post takes on a master of science fiction!original ↗
14 Apr 2021
#1936Club – a favourite author makes a pilgrimage east #BeverleyNicholsoriginal ↗
13 Apr 2021
#1936Club – the Queen of Crime never disappoints! :Doriginal ↗
12 Apr 2021
Little Black Classics 1 – sex, suffering and…. poo!!!!original ↗
9 Apr 2021
Penguin Moderns 37 and 38 – poles apart – or are they???original ↗
6 Apr 2021
“Everything we want too much turns out badly or never happens at all” #silvinaocampo #thepromiseoriginal ↗
3 Apr 2021
Coming up this month – let’s explore 1936! #1936club :Doriginal ↗
1 Apr 2021
“some indelible trace of their story” #georgesperec #ellisislandoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2021
“Our being for the moment is centred…” #virginiawoolf @RenardPressoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2021
Four score years… #virginiawoolforiginal ↗
28 Mar 2021
“Miriam, bless her, looked extremely odd.” #nancyspain @ViragoBooks #deathgoesonskisoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2021
“… a fortress against the triviality of the outside world…” #booksaboutbooksoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2021
“…the pink lights of the boulevards…” #johndicksoncarr @BritLibPublishing #BLCC @medwardsbooksoriginal ↗
19 Mar 2021
“He knew mankind as a huntsman knows his cover…” #JohnLeCarré #GeorgeSmileyoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2021
#Dewithon – sharing the contents of my Welsh bookshelves!original ↗
15 Mar 2021
“…he knew his enemy.” #johnlecarré #georgesmileyoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2021
“…I was only time flowing through myself…” @FitzcarraldoEds #AnnieErnaux #SimplePassionoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2021
#ReadIndies 2021: The Index! :Doriginal ↗
8 Mar 2021
“…days slipping by unrecorded…” #VirginiaWoolf #AlexandraHarrisoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2021
A wonderful month (and a bit!) of #ReadIndies – plus some that got away!original ↗
7 Mar 2021
“It is impossible to live in a void.” #ReadIndies @PushkinPress #Montaigne #StefanZweig #WillStoneoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2021
“…such a store of energy still existed in her…” #ReadIndies #HenryHandelRichardson #MichaelWalmeroriginal ↗
3 Mar 2021
“…College griefs were wild and bitter…” #MissPymDisposes #JosephineTey @BacklistedPodoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2021
#ReadIndies – an update and an extension!original ↗
28 Feb 2021
“… our relationship to nature has become warped.” @NottingHillEds #ReadIndiesoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2021
“…one has to think fearlessly…” @renardpress #ReadIndies #GeorgeOrwelloriginal ↗
24 Feb 2021
“…something intangible, a veil, a glimmer of unreality…” #ReadIndies @Influxpress #MarieNDiayeoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2021
“I was, I suspect, insufferable on the quiet.” #ReadIndies @RepeaterBooks #charliehilloriginal ↗
19 Feb 2021
“Immortality, as we understand it, is a kind of trick…” #ReadIndies @FitcarraldoEds @SashaDugdaleoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2021
“… an elemental power.” @LittleToller @marcussedgwick #ReadIndiesoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2021
“… I prefer a symbol to an explanation.” #ReadIndies @sublunaryeds #mihailsebastianoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2021
“…a liquid chorus…” @saltpublishing @HaslerPoet @RebTamas #ReadIndiesoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2021
“….too weak to hold the fragments together….” #ReadIndies @VersoBooksoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2021
#ReadIndies – small is beautiful…. @halfpintpressoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2021
#ReadIndies – my first encounter with a wonderful indie publisher: @FumdEstampaoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2021
Launching Reading Independent Publishers Month! #ReadIndiesoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2021
“… I ride and ride and I never arrive.” #JapaneseLitChallenge14 #mishimaoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2021
“Patterns coalesce, sometimes by chance at other times by design.” @FitzcarraldoEds #jeremycooperoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2021
“…your infernal fog is doing things to my nerves…” #johndicksoncarr @BritLibPublishing #BLCC @medwardsbooksoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2021
High jinks with a legendary royal personage! #queenvictoriaoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2021
Penguin Moderns 35 and 36 – Marlon and melancholia…original ↗
20 Jan 2021
#ReadIndies – some independent publishers from my shelves!original ↗
18 Jan 2021
….in which I experience a rare reading failure…. #JapaneseLitChallenge14original ↗
15 Jan 2021
“…I’m attracted to the lake, like a seagull…” #Chekhov @AntonSKorenevoriginal ↗
13 Jan 2021
Shuffling the stacks – and revamping the reading projects!original ↗
11 Jan 2021
“The water is always murky…” @nyrbclassics #Gide #Marshlandsoriginal ↗
7 Jan 2021
Announcing Reading Independent Publishers Month #ReadIndies (February 2021)original ↗
4 Jan 2021
2021 – dare I make tentative bookish plans????original ↗
1 Jan 2021

2020

2020 in Books – in which I once again fail to pick an outright winner…. ;Doriginal ↗
31 Dec 2020
“…troublesome history thought long since entombed is emerging again” #underland @RobGMacfarlaneoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2020
A little post-Christmas and Birthday round-uporiginal ↗
27 Dec 2020
Christmas Greetings, as we celebrate during a year like no other…original ↗
25 Dec 2020
A Surprise at Christmas – in more ways than one! :D @BritLibPublishing #BLCC @medwardsbooksoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2020
“… all young readers are omnivorous…” #kennethgrahame #paganpapersoriginal ↗
21 Dec 2020
Advice from a Russian sage…. @renardpress #tolstoy #gandhioriginal ↗
18 Dec 2020
Finding out more about a new indie press – @renardpress over @shinynewbooks!original ↗
17 Dec 2020
“Every body of water is drawn to the sea” @QCfiction #ineverywaveoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2020
My Life in Books – 2020!original ↗
14 Dec 2020
Exploring a new series of lost revolutionary French women authors – over @shinynewbooks :Doriginal ↗
10 Dec 2020
“It seems that civilisation has so spoiled me that I must escape to aesthetics.” @glagoslav #olandaoriginal ↗
9 Dec 2020
Murder and mayhem down by the Thames…. @BritLibPublishing #BLCC #JosephineBelloriginal ↗
7 Dec 2020
“…a handful of pale squandered nights…” @sublunaryeds #brunoschulz #undulaoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2020
“I remain behind the door” #rolandbarthesoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2020
November and its challenges – where did it all go…..?original ↗
30 Nov 2020
“Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.” @renardpress #willacatheroriginal ↗
27 Nov 2020
Penguin Moderns 33 and 34 – hobos and pre-war Germany…original ↗
25 Nov 2020
“Writing itself is a little peculiar” #MARMoriginal ↗
23 Nov 2020
A dazzling exploration of classical music – over @shinynewbooks :D #paulmorley #asoundmindoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2020
“We have puns on our lips and constrained songs….” @NYRBpoets #surrealismoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2020
“There is really nothing that people get used to so readily as miracles…” #GermanLitMonth #NovNovoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2020
“…it sweeps towards us, the rim of an eclipse.” #edinburgh #poetryoriginal ↗
13 Nov 2020
“After Mythologies, the world never looked or meant the same.” #richardclay #rolandbarthes #mythologiesoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2020
“…asking questions about processes of meaning making…” – A new interview with Professor Richard Clay #c21stmyths @BBCFOUR @clearstoryukoriginal ↗
6 Nov 2020
“No lyrical reminiscences, no triumphant displays of irony…” #AnnieErnaux @FitzcarraldoEdsoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2020
“Something in me responds to dereliction, to ruins…” #adamthorpe @LittleTolleroriginal ↗
2 Nov 2020
November challenges – where to start….original ↗
30 Oct 2020
“How much more important than a knowledge of geography is the possession of an atlas.” @NottingHillEds #aamilneoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2020
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