About the accident itself I can say very little. Almost nothing. it involved something falling from the sky. Technology. Parts, Bits. That’s it, really: all I can divulge. Not much, I know. It’s not even that I’m being shy. It’s just that – well, for one, I don’t even remember the event. It’s a blank: […]
Category Archives: Book Reviews
More than Interesting: The Tumours of Matthew Revert.
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In the film ‘We Need to talk about Kevin’ a debate rages (following on from the book) about the nature of Kevin’s psychopathy and his relationship to his mother. Kevin is bad. His mother struggles with his ‘bad-ness’. I‘ve heard this book (and now film) described as the lamentations of the middle class housewife. […]
Book trailer for the forthcoming The Tumors Made me Interesting by Matthew Revert.
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I’m so excited about this novel. Just wait. Blogging about this soon.
Review – Ink. J.S. Breukelaar
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Ink review – Mutinous talisman She limps in circles Around her room And learns that Butterflies can bite Mutinous talisman It’s a rare writer who takes on writing with the presence of mind to know the world needs what they want to say. Don’t get me wrong. Every new writer thinks they are filled with […]
Tomas Tranströmer wins the Nobel Prize for Literature 2011
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I hadn’t read much of surrealist poet Tomas Tranströmer until recently when a revived interest in Poetry (thank you Blandine Longre and Paul Stubs) had me engaging with my google search bar and my ‘great contemporary poets’ generic feed. I’m glad I read some, because he won the Nobel Prize for Literature today (anyone who […]
Bring it home Sylvia!
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Bring it home Sylvia! This never fails to cover me with goose-bumped flesh. I adore this poem. I think all women do. There is something darkly profound in the way she is able to speak for all of us here. This is how it is for the woman. We both love and hate our fathers, […]
Review: Private Midnight – Kris Saknussemm
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“Tomorrow, Rit. I promise.” He’d been saying that for about as long as I had. We both talked a lot about tomorrow. That’s what too many yesterdays will do to you. Too many lost nights.” Private Midnight And so, Birch Ritter comes to the beginning of a journey. The end of a life. Birch is […]
Clarities – Blandine Longre A review
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One of my favourite throw away lines that gains little social impact and yet means everything to me is that it is a magnificent time in history to be a woman. Perhaps not the very best time (I hope that is still to come) but the best the world has been able to offer thus […]
Lisa Thatcher 