I’m thrilled to report that after months of procrastination, I have finally finished David Copperfield. I must admit to being chivvied along by Lucy having finished it a few weeks ago, but Shoshi’s… Continue reading
Reading ‘Little Dorrit’ has been very much like the experience of running a marathon. I don’t mean the kind of marathon run by people who possess more technical kit than items of normal… Continue reading
To get with the program, click here – So, Odysseus is filling the Phaeacians in, regarding his difficult journey back from the Trojan war. He tells them about going to the island of… Continue reading
I’m in complete chaos. I have so many books on the go that it feels like a traffic jam of books and none of them are shifting. There’s a dangerously unstable pile of… Continue reading
No one tell my boss, but I took this on Friday afternoon between leaving my desk and going to a training course, for which I had possibly allowed myself a little more travel… Continue reading
It’s been a month since I threw caution and sense out of the library window and embraced polyreading. My plan was to read Dickens’ ‘David Copperfield’, Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’; Herman Melville’s ‘Moby-Dick’; Flora… Continue reading
That’s what polyreading feels like to me. It’s like cheating. And mental illness – all of those voices in your head, all at once. All of them. When I read Lucy’s recent post about… Continue reading
