Jane:Oh, they understood. [The character] Sister Margaret was [based off] the present-day nun we met with Martin. She was delightful. She’s English like I am, so she knew where I was coming from, because in the United Kingdom, at 18 years old, you can find out your history if ...
To read: Margaret Atwood, YA, and more. To watch: Bad, cheesy or critically-panned movies. Troll II is my top pick (number 7 in the esteemed eonline’s 20 worst movies of the 90s). From that list – I’ve only seen Troll II, The Blair Witch Project, Anaconda, Spice World, and...
Annie Ernaux, Margaret Atwood, Jamaica Kincaid, Maryse Condé, Dubravka Ugresic and Nuruddin Farah were among the other topcontendersfor the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. Other authors who were predicted to win this year included Haruki Murakami, Anne Carson, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Peter Nadas, Jon...
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged book review, book reviews, books, celia Fremlin, E M Delafield, fiction, Lissa Evans, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Drabble, writing | 40 Comments » A summer recess – reading, not blogging. August 26, 2024 by heavenali Hello! I am dipping my toe back i...
10. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood 11. Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor 12. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 13. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Marukami 14. The Arsonists’ City by Hala Alyan 15. Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert 16...
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The Suit:For Deal Me In 2020,♦♦♦Diamonds♦♦♦is my Suit for “Favorite Female Authors,” and I’m reading from three collections – Margaret Atwood’s “Dancing Girls,” Daphne Du Maurier’s “The Birds and Other Stories,” and Alice Munro’s “Too Much Happiness” ...
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood American Gods – Neil Gaiman 2001: A Space Odyssey (the whole series took about 3 days to finish) Arther C. Clarke High Fidelity – Nick Hornby Anthem – Ayn Rand Pretty much anything by Vonnegut I adore a lot of the books already mentioned, but...
Samuel Beckett, Pic, 1' by Roger Pic. Via Wikimedia Commons Clad in a black turtleneck and with a shock of white hair, Samuel Beckett was a gaunt, gloomy high priest of modernism. Open Culture, openculture.com
Image via Wikimedia Commons We now regard Alan Turing, the troubled and ultimately persecuted cryptanalyst (and, intellectually, much more besides)---who cracked the code of the German Enigma machine in World War II---as one of the great minds of history