The White Shelf

Due to popular demand I decided to post a photograph of my white shelf today. An homage to The Beatles’ White Album is appropriate for someone whose blog name plays on their song “Paperback Writer”. I wrote yesterday that all of the white books were Vintage Books but there’s Animals by Keith Ridgway at the [...]

The Japanese Literature Challenge

With so many challenges on the go just now (this year’s Man Booker longlist; the Booker and Pulitzer prize winners; the upcoming Persephone Reading Week; Everything Austen) you would be forgiven for thinking me crazy for embarking on another. However, it just isn’t so! Before I was blogging myself I was reading blogs and last [...]

Hotel du Lac

Reading a Man Booker prize winner (1994) on the day the longlist for this year’s Man Booker prize was announced was coincidental but very apt. I had intended to read the book later this week instead but Simon convinced me otherwise. Another title contributed towards my personal Man Booker challenge, for which I have already [...]

The Man Booker longlist

As mentioned, I have challenged myself to read all Man Booker winners and enjoying them so far. I have also decided to read the Man Booker 2009 Longlist announced today. The longlist nominated novels are as follows: Byatt, AS The Children’s Book Coetzee, J M Summertime Foulds, Adam The Quickening Maze Hall, Sarah How to [...]

Teaser Tuesdays

Quote a couple of spoiler-free sentences from the book you’re reading to tempt others. “He was the only person – well, almost – who knew where she was going. He was, alas, not the only person who knew why she was going.” Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner p. 29

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