What’s more fun after deep seeded racism than a book about eating disorders and toxic parenting? I actually really enjoyed this though, I listened to the audiobook, read by the author and while she could have been angrily bitter about everything that she went through she was shockingly level...
but there were those who were less convinced, and indeed, there is something about the book that suggests another hand was at work (lines like “he sat down and eat the egg which Ethel had so kindly laid for him” always seem a bit knowingly comic to me). One...
a giggle over ‘Some Like it Hot’ .feeling guilty about laughing at cross dressing, and no more fun with Georgette Heyer, and her regency frolics, no diversity, no poverty, but lots of gorgeous men with money and poor girls who marry them…..are these all verboten in this new age of...
As comprehensiveasThe Centuryis, the haptic is one element of book-DNA that it does not single out for a chapter of its own. Codex works in theBooks On Books Collectionthat primarily address what the eye can feel and fingers see, such as Tim Mosely’sThe Book of Tears(2014) andGrasping...
“Jazz connects the head and heart”, he says, “suggesting a more inclusive way to plumb the depths of heaven and earth. A creative imagination unites with tapping feet. It’s both-and.” I love that. And, this: “If jazz is spiritual, it does not lift us off the ground, ...
performance. So his attraction to Brian Doherty’s book as box of mixed media makes sense.Un Coup de Dés, however, may have had just as much influence asLe Livre. Consider these comments by Penny Florence as she writes about how Mallarmé’s poem and Odilon Redon’s prints must be read...
the richest literary and material cultures in the world. More than anything I believe this book wonderfully shows how successive dynasties have tried to espouse the Mandate of Heaven, in whatever form would keep them in power, and how that influenced the people over whom the mandate gave power...
Home About me Books Read Other Writing Wednesday, December 23, 2020 · 9:00 am Reading Indie Newsletter I’ve decided to start a Substack newsletter called “Reading Indie” as a place to record my bookish thoughts and experiences. I’ll be focusing on independent press books and books in...
“God has drawn a curtain between myself and heaven,” he admits, “and there is no parting it.”) But the more he falls into bouts of missing time to the point of surviving a crime so heinous that his memory of it is as indefinite as his possible involvement in it, the more ...