I have finally completed my June challenge, despite thinking i wouldn’t be able to finish in time! My tasks for June were as follows: Read a brand new book. - Read “Peaches for Monsieur le… more →
A World of Randomnesswrote 1 week ago: In reviewing Diego Marani‘s Las Adventures Des Inspector Cabillot, Matthew Reynolds notes his … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: If there’s one thing I really regret, it’s never having achieved fluency in a language o … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: Diego Marani is an Italian author and Eurocrat who writes novels in his spare time. Following on … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Some authors seem to have a few principal obsessions, which they repeatedly examine in their novels. … more →
wrote 1 month ago: The last of the Vostyachs by Diego Marani Italian fiction Original title – L’ultimo dei … more →
wrote 1 month ago: As I recently confessed, I wasn’t quite as impressed by Diego Marani’s New Finnish Grammar as many o … more →
wrote 3 months ago: For a while now I’ve been preoccupied by thoughts of language, the preservation of language, a … more →
wrote 5 months ago: ‘New Finnish Grammar’ by Diego Marani, translated by Judith Landry Published by The Text Publishing … more →
wrote 5 months ago: I’ve reviewed two very different books this month for The Melbourne Review. How Music Works ce … more →
wrote 5 months ago: To put simply a difference between authors and translators, authors have to conceive both of ideas a … more →
wrote 6 months ago: Remember when as a member of the Shadow International Foreign Fiction Prize I reviewed New Finnish G … more →
wrote 6 months ago: “A woman in love is a physical presence, a body which, of all those on earth, seeks out and de … more →
wrote 8 months ago: There on the silent street the biting cold brought me to my senses: I felt unreasonably bothered, I … more →
wrote 9 months ago: Fiction has the power to transport us to places to which we’ve never been. Some of these dest … more →
wrote 10 months ago: Widely or deeply, then? That, over the last couple of days, seems to have been the question for disc … more →
wrote 10 months ago: Curious and curiouser Things aren’t what they seem… Last night on the 3rd July, Blackwel … more →
wrote 10 months ago: I have finally completed my June challenge, despite thinking i wouldn’t be able to finish in t … more →
wrote 10 months ago: Here is an update of my latest Challenge, with just under 2 days left to go! My tasks for June are a … more →
wrote 10 months ago: Here is an update of my latest Challenge, 25 days in! My tasks for June are as follows: Read a brand … more →