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
Reviews of books, films, exhibitions, performances etc, and my Reading Diary. Read Other Folk’s Flowers for more details or scroll down.
Wild Girls on the Salt Path
A reading diary update – a wild selection of brief salty reviews of 5 of the 14 titles I’ve completed reading this first quarter of 2022.
Pictures worth a thousand words – but which words?
A picture is worth a thousand words, even more so when we’re talking about moving pictures. A review of some films seen at this year’s Gothenburg Film Festival.
Michael Rosen and Many Different Kinds of Love
A review of Many Different Kinds of Love by Michael Rosen and some observations on the political situation in Britain at the time of writing.
To Milkman from The Mirror: books read in 2021
A reading diary entry about all the books I read in 2021. The last one I completed was Milkman, the first was The Mirror and the Light.
Liminal places: on the threshold – a reading diary
Liminal places are the spaces between, whether libraries or buildings, corridors or dark woods; threasholds we must cross in order to grow.
Doggerland to Aeyland and back in time for tea
Doggerland is the made-up name for a place that really existed and for which there is archaeological evidence. Aeyland is complete fiction.
From the reservoir: a decade of TheSupercargo in August
After all these years of writing for TheSupercargo, there’s a reservoir of posts stretching back for more than a decade. Here are some.
Call it Huxley in a Comedy of Manners
A reading diary entry reviewing This Much Huxley Knows, Kalla det vad fan du vill and Love in a Cold Climate and presenting them as Comedies of Manners.
Thinking how to translate Jana Kippo
Jana Kippo is the protagonist of a recent successful trilogy of novels in Swedish by Karin Smirnoff. I ponder, and try my hand at translating.
In Flight from the Cider House Rules
In Flight is a personal review of The Cider House Rules by John Irving and Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (translated by Jennifer Croft).