Ulysses Reading Challenge

A long time ago in a University far away in a seminar on Dystopian Literature for a Master’s degree, a group of postgraduate students admitted to having successfully avoided reading Ulysses by James Joyce during their University career thus far; considering that for most of the group our alma mater had been the same University [...]

Mort

I love Terry Pratchett. I seldom read Fantasy as a genre but Pratchett is more satire and social commentary. He is also possibly one of the funniest and wittiest novelists I have ever read (although admittedly I haven’t read P.G. Wodehouse as yet). It really is difficult to sum up the genius of Pratchett and [...]

The Clothes They Stood Up In

After discovering JoAnn at Lakeside Musing’s blog and her mention of The Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennett, I requested a copy from my library (included in the volume Three Stories, along with two other novellas). Reading JoAnn’s teaser last Tuesday persuaded me to read it immediately upon collecting it on Thursday. I [...]

Man Booker

Don’t you just love lists? I adore making lists of books that I want to read although I seldom stick to the rigidity of a list and often deviate from it. Stay tuned in the coming week for my summer reading list, which thus far only appears in my mind. This year I am steadily [...]

Fahrenheit 451

Last November I visited the TH.2058 installation by Dominique Gonzales-Foerster in the Tate Modern, London. The concept behind this temporary exhibit was a dystopian post-apocalyptic haven. From the brief (which appeared on the wall before you entered): It rains incessantly in London – not a day, not an hour without rain, a deluge that has [...]

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