Review-a-thon: Bone, Blankets, and The Finishing School
In the aftermath of consecutive Angela Carter month and Persephone Reading Week, I have a lot of blogging to catch up with. I have a few weeks’ worth of reviews to be scheduled and haven’t yet reviewed those books read during the read-a-thon that I participated in early April. This post is actually micro-reveiws of [...]
The Girls of Slender Means
I am still reeling from reading Memento Mori by Muriel Spark last month and I went into The Girls of Slender Means hoping for a similar experience; it is not nearly as vindictive or as sinister as its predecessor but it is as mordantly witty. The ironic title (ironic in its double-play on the word [...]
Library Loot
It’s been a few weeks since my last Library Loot post as I am attempting to catch up on the loot I have already acquired. Some books have been returned unread recently as I attempt to conquer an overwhelming immediate to-be-read pile; I did consider a blank slate but there are a few of the [...]
Scottish Fiction
A blogging friend mentioned at the weekend that she didn’t know I was Scottish; I was quite surprised by that as I thought I was always rambling on about trips home to Glasgow and the books that are left there but apparently I have not been as upfront about my heritage as I had thought. [...]
Memento Mori
“Memento Mori” is a Latin phrase translated as “Remember You Must Die” and it is that phrase which is anonymously uttered in a series of insidious phone-calls to a group of elderly friends, the premise of the novel by Muriel Spark. This macabre tale was only the third of many novels published by Spark and [...]
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