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Sep 17, 20221 min read
1013. Anthony Burgess - Here Comes Everybody
Tried to read this in parallel as a crib, but that didn’t work either, Burgess is almost as cryptic as Joyce, so not a good week for...
Jan 11, 20191 min read
649. George Steiner - Tolstoy Or Dostoevsky
I have been meaning to read this for years, but thought I should read more Dostoyevsky first. Steiner wrote this in his late 20’s and his...
Sep 20, 20171 min read
526. Lloyd Whitesell - The Music Of Joni Mitchell
An unread birthday or Xmas present from a few years ago, but we went to see a tribute band just before we went away. Quite an academic...
Feb 4, 20171 min read
465. Helena Kelly - Jane Austen: The Secret Radical
Very good book; ‘academic’ Lit Crit, but well written and argued. My problem was an ignorance of Jane Austen’s novels (which I must now...
Jan 10, 20161 min read
369. James Booth - Philip Larkin: Life, Art And Love
An Xmas present from B, maybe with Larkin’s most famous opening line in mind. (?) I started hating it, seeing it as a typically footnoted...
Oct 21, 20151 min read
347. Angus Wilson - Emile Zola: An Introductory Study Of His Novels
I borrowed, purloined or stole quite a few of my parents’ now unwanted books on a visit to Bristol yesterday. This is not a great book,...
Jun 6, 20141 min read
215. F. R. Leavis - The Great Tradition
Had been meaning to re-read this for years and finally stole my parents’ copy from Bristol a few weeks ago. Leavis, I am sure, was...