Since everyone else is doing it and I like writing about books..

This appears to be a list of 100 books or series that are important cultural artefacts - I've bolded the ones I've read, and commented on all the ones I wanted to say something about.

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One of my friends linked to this post by sashagoblin  on what to read to get inside her head.  It got me thinking because I don't think I read in the same way.  I don't think you could tell all that much about me from the books that I love.  I read to get inside other people's minds, not to get further inside my own, it very much feels like an extroverted ( Read more... )

Better late than never..  another Sayers post.

I really love this novel. I think it's interesting in the sense that it's an important novel in terms of character development and setting the tone for future novels but I think it's also extremely able to stand on its own two feet (as opposed to, say, Have His Carcase - of which more in another post at ( Read more... )

I'm going to post about all of Sayers' novels in some kind of order because I like talking about them and other people seem to too! If you know someone who likes Sayers, feel free to point them at the posts to join in the Sayers Fest. I'll put spoilers under a cut.

I'm going to start with Clouds of Witness because, despite the fact that it's not ( Read more... )

Why I don’t really like Shakespeare.

The first thing to note is that I don’t hate Shakespeare, I mean it literally when I say that I don’t really like it.

I don’t think that I hold this opinion out of a desire to be contrary or iconoclastic - I have read a lot of Shakespeare and seen performances a number of times too. It took me a long time to ( Read more... )

I think Lolita may have been the first novel that totally and utterly blew me away.  Obviously, before I read it, I’d read many other novels that I’d enjoyed and liked and I even had novels that I’d reread to pieces.  But Lolita was something else.  Every time I reread, I find more to think about but what I think the novel is really about, above ( Read more... )

Since quite a few of you replied to my post asking for murder mystery recommendations, I thought I'd put up some reviews. I have tried not to spoil any of them but it's not altogether easy to review murder mysteries without giving something away.. Any further recommendations/thoughts welcome!

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I'm currently slightly addicted to murder mystery novels - probably because they're not too intellectually taxing and tend to be better written than other light fiction - but I'm starting to run out of Agatha Christies.. Any recommendations for me ( Read more... )

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