"A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life" [John Milton Areopagitica]"All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time" [John Ruskin Sesame and Lilies]"There is no...
Booth by Karen Joy Fowler was longlisted for this year’s Booker Prize and is a piece of historical fiction about the family of John Wilkes Booth, the man who shot dead Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Fowler has deliberately ensured that Booth and Lincoln’s assassination are not the focus here, ...
There is little in the way of scholarship and criticism in regard to pop-up and movable books. Part of this is the stigma of being represented as a commercial novelty product or kiddie book by twentieth-century publishers. The explosion of artists’ books in the 1970’s gave rise to a su...
CHAPTER 17: 'A Happy Person Never Phantasies': Repression and Projection of the Self in John Connolly's The Book of Lost Things doi:10.1163/9789004418998_019SELF-presentationFREUD, Sigmund, 1856-1939JUNG, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961FAIRY talesThis chapter applies...
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Butcher’s Crossingby John Williams Blue Bird, Blue Birdby Attica Locke Indianaby George Sand. Every book sounds great and I’m sure we’ll have great reading times and a lot of fun discussing the books at family lunches. Tame the TBR Challenge ...
turned out, the house next door to a friend we visited in Sherborne (albeit many decades earlier). She was married to Littleton Powys, one of the Powys brothers – including T.F. Powys and John Cowper Powys. They share with me the honour of having been the son of the vicar of ...
The first chapter when Shimamura looks at the young people in the train’s window is truly beautiful. It’s cinematographic and very Proust-like. I can’t help thinking about the scenes on the train in Normandy during the Narrator’s stays in Balbec. Shimamura is entranced by the young gir...
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Gospel of John the Lifter Blessed are the rich in quads: for they shall find pants that fit. Blessed are the strong: for they shall possess the land. Blessed are they who lift: for they shall be lifted. Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after leg day: for they shall have their...