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Class act: Alan Hollinghurst's venison4 comments

Charlotte wrote 4 months ago: I’m loving The Line of Beauty, immersing myself in it at last after having avoided it for year … more →

Tags: writing, Food snobbery, Fiction, the line of beauty

The Swimming-Pool Library 2 comments

derleser wrote 4 months ago: This is not my first attempt at Alan Hollinghurst, the first being the 2004 Booker winner, The Line … more →

Tags: Books, Review

read items, june 20-21

cee wrote 5 months ago: novels! “i read coffee and drank novels” a friend said, accidentally, of the weeks after … more →

Tags: read items, Doris Lessing

The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

Anders Hanson wrote 5 months ago: Sometimes it can take me an age to finish a book I’ve been reading.  I might start reading a f … more →

Tags: Books, the line of beauty, dalcrombie lodge

Gay Literature....Beautifully Melancholic ?

alexhopkins wrote 7 months ago: legendary gay author Edmund White at home in Paris Last week a friend challenged me on why I read so … more →

Tags: Culture, armistead maupin, gay literature, Edmund White, The Farewell Symphony, James Baldwin, giovanni's room, The Mann Booker Prize, Arts

Book 988 Alan Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty

deucekindred wrote 9 months ago: As I was reading Alan Holinghurst’s ‘The Line of Beauty’ I couldn’t help fee … more →

5 down, 47 to go

Vinhnigan wrote 10 months ago: The Swimming-pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst Perhaps if I had known what the title means, I would … more →

Tags: 52 Books | 52 Weeks, Fiction, Gay Fiction

Some More Incoming...

savidgereads wrote 10 months ago: If I have missed any then I apologise to the publishers I have just been swamped with new books but … more →

Tags: Stella Duffy, Tom Rob Smith, Sebastian Barry, truman capote, Edmund White, Thomas Mann, David Leavitt, david sedaris, jeanette winterson

The Swimming Pool Library - Alan Hollinghurst2 comments

The Dandy Highwayman wrote 1 year ago: London, 1983. William Beckwith, young, gay, indolent and aristocratic, devotes his existence to the … more →

Tags: Reviews, Books, Ronald Firbank, Gay, Homophobia, gay literature

Remembering Mrs Thatcher1 comment

jonathanfryer wrote 1 year ago: For those of us who lived politically through the Thatcher years, it’s hard to realise that yo … more →

Tags: Ken Livingstone, Margaret Thatcher, Gaydar Radio, Joanne Oatts, Bromley Civic Centre, Hanif Kureishi, Ronald Firbank, Clause 28, Liberal/SDP Alliance

Reading in the Park

John wrote 1 year ago: Sigh. Life just keeps going on. More good weather. It’s getting to be that time of the year. I … more →

Tags: SE Portland, gardening, southeast portland, Queen Club Paris, Klaxons, 30 Rock, The Office, Ipods, Simian Mobile Disco

On Two Contrasting Explorations of Masculinity and What They Tell Us of the Sad Plight of the United States

Matthew Gallaway wrote 2 years ago: In a profile included in this month’s Poets & Writers Magazine, Benjamin Percy — a y … more →

Tags: drivel, Writers-British, Sickness, Writers-American, Gay, Literature, Benjamin Percy, Swimming Pool Library, Refresh Refresh

books1 comment

crisargos wrote 2 years ago: books — an infinite pleasure My primary delight for reading is a well written novel. For me the curr … more →

Tags: Reading, Books, writing, Iain Banks, William Gibson, Writers, novelists


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