As the Crow Flies

If you want to loveDo soTo the ends of the earthWith no short cutsDo soAs the crow flies. Indeed I too would have loved to write one of those serene stories with a beginning and an end. As you know only too well, it is never like that, though. Lives mingle, people tame one another [...]

African Literature

Recently I have been contemplating gaps in my reading or areas of literature where I would like to be more knowledgeable. I am a relatively diverse reader and do read a number of books in translation. Primarily any reading in translation that I’ve done this year has been French; there has also been a handful [...]

Weetzie Bat

Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block is a Young Adult novel and #1 in the Dangerous Angels series. First published in 1989 is something of a cult classic in North America and I first learned of it via some friends across the pond. A few months ago I was very much aware of the controversy [...]

Teaser Tuesdays

Quote a couple of spoiler-free sentences from the book you’re reading to tempt others. “The coming – or return – of the fairytale opened some trapdoor in her imagination. Her writing became compulsive, fluent and daring.” The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt p. 34

Katherine Mansfield

During Persephone Reading Week I started to read Katherine Mansfield’s Journal and realised that to truly appreciate it I needed to reread those Katherine Mansfield short stories I have loved and read those that are to me. Mansfield has been a popular blog topic in the last couple of weeks and I was inspired to [...]

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