Claire’s Corner
Have you seen Google’s homepage today? They have the beautiful literary-inspired dedication above to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, today is the 110th anniversary of his birth. If you haven’t read his novella, Le Petit Prince, then please do; it is a curious and wonderfully philisophical book. I have a beautiful illustrated edition and also a cherish [...]
Foster by Claire Keegan
Foster by Claire Keegan is an extended and amended short story being released by Faber later this year; a shorter version with the same title is available to read here on The New Yorker. I am posting my thoughts on the proof copy so far in advance of its publication (September in the UK) to [...]
The Flea Palace
Since starting to blog I have begun to pay closer attention to translation; not simply reading more books in translation (although that too) but the quality of the translation and its bearing on my enjoyment of the book. Pre-blogging, the translation itself was not something I considered and, until now, it remained on the periphery [...]
Another Literary Loss
Nobel-laureate, José Saramago, has died today. Blindness, considered to be his finest work, has been fighting its way to the top of my to-be-read for the past year and is on my literary bucket list; it is sad that it takes the writer’s death to finally place it at the top but it has. In [...]
Japanese Literature Challenge
I’m not a great one for completing reading challenges; I love the excitement to begin with and going through my books (and books I want to read but don’t yet have) and compiling a list for the challenge but for me that’s the most exciting part. Soon I become bogged down by not having met [...]
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