Other folk’s flowers
[Sticky post] Presents a description of the Reviews category on TheSupercargo website, together with associated sub-categories including Film reviews, Book reviews and my Reading Diary.
Reviews of books, films, exhibitions, performances etc, and my Reading Diary. Read Other Folk’s Flowers for more details or scroll down.
[Sticky post] Presents a description of the Reviews category on TheSupercargo website, together with associated sub-categories including Film reviews, Book reviews and my Reading Diary.
Imaginary places are pretty much the only places one can visit at present and The Dictionary of Imaginary Places is a great place to start.
A Mediterranean quintet of books, and a few more. A reading diary round-up of the books I completed in the first 8 weeks or so of 2021.
Reading A Village Life by Louise Glück, I’m consciously trying to read it in a different way from the way I usually read poetry books.
In Night of the Kings, a film from Ivory Coast, Roman, a new inmate in the MACA prison must entertain his fellow prisoners by telling a story.
A report from the 44th Gothenburg Film Festival (online) – how I’ve enjoyed the festival in the past and the pros and cons of it this year.
Last week I published the final entry in my reading diary for books completed in 2020. As last year for 2019, I thought a collection in one place of all the titles I read during the year might be handy. Handy for me, if no one else. All these, each in it’s own way, are … More…
Strategies and tactics I employed to keep my reading resolution last year – and a review of some of the books I read in the last quarter of 2020
Successfully organised and bulleted- that’s how I feel now at the end of 2020, thanks to The Bullet Journal Method and The Organised Writer.
Historical fiction in the third quarter of 2020 – a reading diary entry covering four historical novels and a three other books.
Bring up the Bodies from Wolf Hall: a discussion of point of view in Hilary Mantel’s fantastic trilogy, and a discussion of character names.