To Juneau via Caiette – reading diary
I’m currently reading Passage to Juneau by Jonathan Raban and The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel. Two books anchored in the same place.
Reading diary
This page collects all my Reading diary posts. Most are a series of short reviews of the books I’ve been reading, but some are otherwise.
From Gravel Heart to Simple Passion: books read in 2022
A reading diary entry about all the books I read in 2022. The first I completed was Gravel Heart, the last one was Simple Passion.
From Fortune Birds to Treacle Future
At last, a reading diary entry that stretches over six months and reaches from The Fortune Men to the Ministry for the Future
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.
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.
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.
A Mediterranean Quintet: Call Me to A Village
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.
How Do You Read Poetry? A Village Life
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.
Strategies strained and tactics dodgy: a reading diary
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