Christmas fun-times!

by Sarah

I am so close to finishing Dorothy Richardson’s ‘Pilgrimage’, it feels like the end of term is looming. Over the past few weeks I have read little else in order to see it… Continue reading →

The Book of my Dreams Is Coming!

by Sarah

I don’t know about you, but sometimes the news of a forthcoming publication has me thinking ‘Ooo – interesting!’ before searching down the side of the sofa for a pencil to note down… Continue reading →

You can’t start a fire without a spark*

by Lucy

I am about to start Karl Ove Knausgaard IV, Dancing In The Dark (words I will forever associate with Bruce Springsteen), and according to blurb, it charts his life post-school, his attempts to… Continue reading →

Zola vs Knausgaard – Round 4

by Lucy

  Hello everyone! Leeeeeett’s get ready to ruuuuummmmmbbbbleee! I am now reading Boyhood Island, so all Karl’s trials in this volume are from his childhood. I am also still reading Germinal, as I… Continue reading →

Karl’s On The Telly!

by Lucy

If you are in the UK, or even if you are not but have a sneaky VPN thing going on, you can see Karl spending time with neurosurgeon Henry Marsh. Karl comes across… Continue reading →

Knausgaard Vs Zola – Round 3

by Lucy

Germinal has started making my comparison complicated, as now we are no longer just with miners, with lungs full of coal dust, hump-backed children and pit ponies, we are also popping in on… Continue reading →

Knausgaard Vs Zola – Round 2

by Lucy

*I am comparing the lives of the characters in Zola’s ‘Germinal’ with how things go for Karl Ove Kausgaard in the second book of the ‘My Struggle’ series, simply because I am reading… Continue reading →

Zola vs Knausgaard – Round 1

by Lucy

I am reading Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘ A Man in Love’ in tandem with Emile Zola’s ‘Germinal’, to see who is suffering the most. So far in ‘Germinal’, the main character Étienne Lantier… Continue reading →

Russian Misery and Children’s Parties

by Lucy

To kick off the new year, I have started ‘Anna Karenina’. So far, all I’ve read of Tolstoy has been ‘War and Peace’, and seeing as this is also not a quick read,… Continue reading →

Once more into the fascinating (but slightly tedious in places) breach

by Lucy

I read Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘A Death in the Family’ at the beginning of this year, and when about halfway through, and still held by the novelty of his way of writing every… Continue reading →