... I went back to a charity shop and bought Henry Green's Loving (1945) / Living (1929) / Party Going (1939) and Nothing (1950) / Doting (1952) / Blindness (1926), even though under the strict application of the two pound rule I don't have to. Together they come to £5.50, but as this is six novels that's actually about 90p a book ( Read more... )

Today I broke the rule, and paid the price ( Read more... )

Let it be recorded: Today has been a good day.

I've been feeling a bit trapped, and the endless coypu-editing, camp or otherwise, is getting to me (do experts not know the titles of the books they are discussing? can no one follow Routledge NuStyle?). A jolly, an expotition was in order.


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Between some Kenny Loving (or at least some Kenny Lunching)* and the viewing of a naked Clanger at the exhibition, I popped into various charity shops (all safe) and the library - where I had an accident. Not, fortunately, a catastrophe, merely an accident. The library was selling its 1960s editions of Henry VI I-III and Henry VIII, which, as I ( Read more... )

Ian Rankin, Mortal Causes

I thought it would be odd to dispose of Mr Big so quickly after fully introducing him in The Black Book. He's back - in jail at the start of the book ( Read more... )