February 13, 2012 – 5:03 pm
I started reading Ulysses in July 2011, and after various sincere attempts to get into a routine of fitting this book around my daily life, I lost my enthusiasm halfway in. However, I have carried it on my commute more often than not, and finally made it to the end of the book.That doesn’t mean [...]
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov My rating: 5 of 5 stars Vladimir Nabokov fascinates me. He had synesthesia, and literary synesthesia is defined as “a writer’s use of a metaphor of the senses”. It gave him a unique perspective to weigh up the world around him, which I think manifests itself beautifully in the prose of [...]
For much of the year I view London as a chaotic, jumbling hive of activity; cold, impersonal and anonymous. But there are times when the the rain ceases, the clouds evaporate and it reveals itself to be a pretty damn beautiful place. I’m always thinking about where I want to move to next, but on [...]
January 22, 2011 – 4:04 pm
He had gifts that would have made him an explorer, a soldier of fortune, a revolutionist: they were qualities fatal to a poet. –Malcolm Cowley’s summary of Harry Crosby Having studied the works of the likes of Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence, and James Joyce at university, I was really surprised that I hadn’t heard of [...]
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Tagged 1920s, america, caresse crosby, dh lawrence, ernest hemingway, harry crosby, james joyce, lucy moore, mary phelps jacob, paris, roaring twenties
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November 28, 2010 – 4:44 pm
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis My rating: 4 of 5 stars I don’t need to write up a summary of what this novel is about, as it’s been written about to death. But what I have to say is that after reading this Bret Easton Ellis has become one of my new favourite authors [...]
November 21, 2010 – 5:14 pm
How to Be Good by Nick Hornby My rating: 2 of 5 stars This book made me realise how important it is to read a book’s customer reviews before committing to read it. There’s so many novels I want to read, and just not enough time to read all of them! If I’d done my [...]
November 3, 2010 – 5:32 pm
Although many years have passed since I was first introduced to Philip Larkin’s fantastically down-to-earth and relatable poems at high school, BBC Radio 4′s readings of Letters to Monica instantly sparked my interest. I found this (fairly long) passage from Telegraph.co.uk, which really captures the intensity of his admiration for D.H. Lawrence: I get the [...]
