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.
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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.
Pilgrim, Riddly and setting free the turtles
A memory and a review of Riddly Walker, Turtle Diary and Pilgermann, ten years after the death of their author Russel Hoban.
All the great books I read in 2020
A list of all the books I completed reading during 2020 with links to my relevant blog posts, to the authors and to other people’s reviews.
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
M-m-my corona reading – a reading diary entry
My corona reading – about the 7 books I read in February and March, bringing to 14 the number of books read in the first quarter of 2020
How stories work, and stories that don’t
How stories work – my reading diary entry for Feb 2020: 7 books read so far, 4 novels, 1 anthology, 1 self-help book and 1 guide to writing.
From Reality to Espedair Street – a reading diary
From Reality to Espedair Street – a reading diary covering the period from mid-August to the end of September 2018: 4 titles reviewed, 4 more touched on.
From Dunstan to Apex – a reading diary entry
From Dunstan to Apex – a reading diary entry with reviews of six or seven novels (depending how you count) and links to a half-a-dozen more.
Dunstan by Conn Iggulden – a review
Dunstan (2017) by Conn Iggulden, a review of the historical novel and some ruminating on the the workings of the creative imagination.