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Beryl Bainbridge 27 Aug 2013 | 04:18 pm
I have no idea how Beryl Bainbridge has escaped my attention for so long. I remember reading According to Queeney a few years ago and absolutely loving it: Bainbridge’s take on Dr Johnson is wonderful...
Surfacing 1 Aug 2013 | 09:44 am
Surfacing, Margaret Atwood, Virago, 2007. A few years ago I tried to read The Blind Assassin, but did not get very far with it. I think the only two Atwood books I have read and enjoyed are The Handm...
Molly 3.5 30 Jul 2013 | 10:37 am
Molly is nearly fifteen weeks old. She weighs 2.7kg, can sit, drop, and stay on command (if she wants to), loves tearing up paper, sneakily eating insects, chasing leaves, and anything at all to do wi...
The Distracted Preacher 24 Jul 2013 | 09:55 am
The Distracted Preacher, Thomas Hardy, Melville House, 2012. Fist published in 1879, The Distracted Preacher is a short story which rather surprised me because it is so funny. Hardy is not the first ...
The Double 17 Jul 2013 | 10:12 am
The Double, Fyodor Dostoevsky, tr. Hugh Aplin, Alma Classics, 2013. I have become quite partial to Alma Classics editions. Not only are they well-translated (as far as I can tell), but the books are ...
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller 11 Jul 2013 | 11:19 am
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller, Italo Calvino, tr. William Weaver, Vintage, 1998. Seriously, how can this book have existed in an English translation since 1981 without me having read it before n...
Meeting the English 3 Jul 2013 | 11:05 am
Meeting the English, Kate Clanchy, Picador, 2013. My reading slump from ten levels below hell continues, but I did manage to finish one book last month: Meeting the English. Considering my total lack...
Animal Friends, Present and Past 20 Jun 2013 | 10:49 am
This is William. He is big and mean, and he’s Molly’s sworn mortal enemy. Pissed off, as usual. ‘I’ll cut you’. He was the last dog’s boss and one day decided to drink the entire contents of the do...
Molly (Maybe) 15 Jun 2013 | 04:00 pm
Yeah, I know I said that I’d decided not to get another dog, but: She’s a Maltese Shih Tzu crossbred, eight weeks old, and I think I will call her Molly. I went to see her four times and had convince...
Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia 4 Jun 2013 | 04:06 pm
Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia, José Manuel Prieto, tr. Esther Allen, Black Cat, 2012. I have no idea how to describe this wonderful book. The author, who is Cuban, lived in Russia for twelve years...
