This is where I have been this week. After a very long time without a holiday we finally managed to get away and have the most perfectly tranquil few days that I think it is possible to have. It ticked all the boxes on my short list of boxes to tick. Nice coffee, nowhere toContinue reading “Lincoln in the Bardo, Toby in the Lake District”
Category Archives: Booker
Looking In Both Directions, Autumn by Ali Smith
This week I finally got around to reading Autumn by Ali Smith. I have been meaning to read it for a while because over the years I have been hearing an increasing volume of good things about her but because this was known as being her Brexit novel I ended up putting it off. IContinue reading “Looking In Both Directions, Autumn by Ali Smith”
Harold Fry and the 2012 Booker
As with every year when the Booker prize long-list and the subsequent shortlist are announced I take a look, ostensibly for the purpose of finding new things to read but always in the hope of seeing something on there that I have already read. The usual turn of events is that the list features some books that IContinue reading “Harold Fry and the 2012 Booker”
You’re all winners
All the talk recently about Julian Barnes Booker win and all the questions it has thrown up (much the same questions that seem to be thrown up every year,) makes me wonder why the Booker prize even has a winner. I’m not really sure what it achieves. This isn’t like the time I tried toContinue reading “You’re all winners”
Summer’s gone
Seems summer has finally ended. Last Sunday, against all expectation of how my Sunday’s usually happen, I was in a forest in Rugby with some friends playing laser-tag for a stag-do and worrying that I didn’t have any sun-cream on. This weekend we put the heating on and I had to wear a coat when I wentContinue reading “Summer’s gone”
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