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Saturday, 13 April 2013

Angela Carter: How to be a woman.

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So, for reasons best known to themselves, the book group have elected to read Caitlin Moran's How To Be a Woman for next month, effectiv...
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Wednesday, 3 April 2013

Iain Banks, a tribute

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There is a church in Norwich, not far from where I live, which has some magnificent, 15th Century flush-work. Approaching it for the first t...
Saturday, 16 February 2013

Some extracts from a Hogwarts Ofstead report.

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It came to me, this afternoon, that - if you think about it - Hogwarts is a bit shite. Don't worry, I'm not going to start critici...
Friday, 8 February 2013

Wuthering Heights: In defence of amour fou

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So, I took the plunge and went to a book group.  Wow. Socialising. With real live people-persons who had real people personalities. Tha...
Tuesday, 29 January 2013

Dance of the Undead: Why I don't like zombies and why that doesn't matter

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The tide, thank Gods, has finally turned. Twice, twice! in the last two days, my twitter feed has revealed to me people disparaging zombies ...
Friday, 18 January 2013

Anne Rice: On falling in love with one's characters and 'the iron bar' factor

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I have very recently come into possession of the majority of Anne Rice's 'The Vampire Chronicles'. So now I've got them all...
Monday, 3 December 2012

What the Dickens?

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I have a feeling I've written before about missing the fucking point. Surely it must have come up, at least once in this blog, that far...