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Reviews

Reviews of books, films, exhibitions, performances etc, and my Reading Diary. Read Other Folk’s Flowers for more details or scroll down.

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Michael Rosen and Many Different Kinds of Love

26 January, 2022

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.

Categories Book Review, Reviews
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To Milkman from The Mirror: books read in 2021

5 January, 20225 January, 2022

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.

Categories Reading diary, Reviews
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Liminal places: on the threshold – a reading diary

9 December, 20218 December, 2021

Liminal places are the spaces between, whether libraries or buildings, corridors or dark woods; threasholds we must cross in order to grow.

Categories At the Quill, Reading diary
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Doggerland to Aeyland and back in time for tea

8 September, 2021

Doggerland is the made-up name for a place that really existed and for which there is archaeological evidence. Aeyland is complete fiction.

Categories Articulations, Exhibition, Stops and Stories
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From the reservoir: a decade of TheSupercargo in August

12 January, 202225 August, 2021

After all these years of writing for TheSupercargo, there’s a reservoir of posts stretching back for more than a decade. Here are some.

Categories At the Quill, Commonplace, Images, Reviews, Stops and Stories
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Call it Huxley in a Comedy of Manners

14 August, 202111 August, 2021

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.

Categories Book Review, Reading diary, Reviews
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Thinking how to translate Jana Kippo

20 May, 2021

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.

Categories Articulations, Book Review, Translation
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In Flight from the Cider House Rules

5 May, 2021

In Flight is a personal review of The Cider House Rules by John Irving and Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (translated by Jennifer Croft).

Categories Book Review, Reviews
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Visiting imaginary places in the realms of fantasy

7 April, 2021

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.

Categories Book Review, Stops and Stories
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A Mediterranean Quintet: Call Me to A Village

25 March, 202124 March, 2021

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.

Categories Book Review, Reading diary, Reviews
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Most popular posts published in 2022

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Michael Rosen and Many Different Kinds of Love (January)
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Writing a wreath – adventures in poetry (February)
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Bruce and the Spider – writing resolutions in 2022 (January)
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Impressions from the SWF22 (August)
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Return to Tema: the search for house and school (March)

Most popular posts from earlier years

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Liminal places: on the threshold – a reading diary (2021)
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Thinking how to translate Jana Kippo (2021)
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Jamestown, Accra: walking through history with Collins and Lee (2020)
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Bringing up the Bodies from Wolf Hall (2020)
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Curse words we all use – but less often nowadays (2021)
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A couple of days in Maastricht (2016)
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