Happy Bloomsday!

by Sarah

Happy Bloomsday everyone! Today – June 16th – is the day in which, in 1904, all the action from James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses‘ takes place. In order to celebrate, I thought I’d knit a little… Continue reading →

Ulysses is for life, and not just Bloomsday

by Lucy

Too many writers to mention have been quoted saying something along the lines of anyone who thinks writing is easy is doing it wrong. And the same goes for anyone who thinks reading… Continue reading →

Go away. I’m trying to read Ulysses.

by Lucy

So far, Ulysses is the hardest book I’ve read.  The above picture is me reading on my lunchbreak in the car, parked at Fraserburgh beach as this is not a book I can… Continue reading →

Unnecessary arithmetic of Leopold Bloom

by Lucy

I am not a snowflake. No one is. Heinz varieties, more like. Reading Ulysses, I find I share an awful lot of thoughts with Leopold Bloom, and that chiming recognition in all art… Continue reading →

Yeah, well, it’s not the craziest of things to do.

by Lucy

  I know it looks a bit nuts, but I like to copy out books. And I’m not the only one, Stephen Fry once said he has typed out a P.G Wodehouse novel.… Continue reading →

The broken windows of their souls

by Lucy

I wonder about Huxley, Joyce and Milton. How they coped with their terrible malfunctioning eyes. From what I have read of Milton and Huxley, not a lot of it is visual. They are… Continue reading →