Currently Reading…
…November Tatler, The Private Patient by PD James, Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler and just finished listening to Dead Man’s Folly by Agatha Christie. Continue reading Currently Reading…
What I am reading, have read and plan to read
…November Tatler, The Private Patient by PD James, Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler and just finished listening to Dead Man’s Folly by Agatha Christie. Continue reading Currently Reading…
…A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, November Tatler, 1001 books and online entries about Bakhtin – but strangely not yet too much of his own words. But then tomorrow is another day…I think that was dialogic – bloody better be or I have Bakhtin ass about face. Bon nuit Continue reading Currently Reading…
…borrowed the copy of Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers from the writer’s room today. Watch this space. Also I have just eaten raw garlic by mistake – about two cloves. Continue reading Finally…
OK I was right. There were nuances and details I had not properly fleshed out but I was dead on with the general gist. Obviously I can’t say too much here because I don’t want to spoil the mystery for anyone who has not read Little Face. My one disappointment with the book was that it contains one of these scenes: hero/ine is two steps in front of the police and one step behind the murderer and is at that crucial point where they are about to reveal/find the evidence/set a trap when the killer turns round and there is a … Continue reading Sophie Hannah Prediction
I once watched a friend successfully smoke a cigarette whilst taking a shower. It was very impressive and so expertly done I knew this wasn’t his first time. He wasn’t staging a ‘look-at-me’ trick. He simply had to smoke in the shower owing to time constraints. He was hung-over, just out his bed and we had to get ready to attend a wedding. In a much earlier and similar scene, I once successfully finished the last chapter of a Dean R Koontz book in the shower for the same reason. I had to. I was a little scared of the events … Continue reading Sophie Hannah