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.
On the north side: photos from a morning walk
I took my new smartphone for a photo walk on the north side of the river: wharves and waste ground, building works and sculptures.
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.
Behemoth passing – of death and computers
My desktop PC, Behemoth, died on Monday evening at about 5pm. The boot drive had become corrupted. Windows 10 wouldn’t load. The auto repair process was caught in a repeating loop. I was faced with the Black Screen of Death. The panic monsters I’ve been using computers for work and play (and to kill time) … More…
Night of the Kings – storytelling and story creation
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.
Fat Tuesday, intolerance and how to bake semlor
Fat Tuesday – Mardi Gras, Fettisdag, Shrove Tuesday – lactose intolerance and the corona pandemic combine to get me baking Swedish Fettisbuns
The 44th Gothenburg Film Festival (online) – a report
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.
What the partridge in the pear tree dreams
What the partridge in the pear tree dreams. The retold tale of Perdix, murdered by Daedalos but saved by Athena – and what she dreams.
All the great books I read in 2020
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 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