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Lovely Loans1 comment

novelinsights wrote 20 hours ago: I popped into the library yesterday to return books and get The Shuttle by Frances Hodgeson Burnett, … more →

Tags: Book Thoughts, frances hodgeson burnett

Technorati for Writers | Reach a Larger Audience

rioguzman wrote 4 days ago: Technorati for authors! “Bloggers can now directly publish articles on Technorati.com. This pr … more →

Tags: Internet Marketing, Articles, Authors, blogs, Discovery, media, Opportunities, publish, Technorati

The Book Buying Ban... The Update33 comments

savidgereads wrote 2 weeks ago: So I haven’t bought a book since the end of October when I had a bit of a haul that I reported to yo … more →

Tags: Book Thoughts, Dan Rhodes, Agatha Christie, Ali Smith, Arthur Conan Doyle, john berendt, angela carter, Louis De Bernieres, Nam Le

Reading Habits - October 20098 comments

sherby57 wrote 3 weeks ago: It’s already half way through November and I’m only just getting around to writing about … more →

Tags: Books, Reading Habits, BookMooch, Reading, Terry Pratchett, Discworld, street magic, Paul Zenon, Magic

The Girls of Slender Means - Muriel Spark28 comments

savidgereads wrote 1 month ago: After I was looking for novella’s the other day I was quite shocked to note that I hadn’t read a boo … more →

Tags: Penguin books, Review

Booking Through Thursday - It's All About ME!10 comments

novelinsights wrote 1 month ago: This weeks BTT Question is: Which do you prefer? Biographies written about someone? Or Autobiographi … more →

Tags: Booking Through Thursday, My Book Memes, True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Cary, Autobiographies, Biographies

November Novella's16 comments

savidgereads wrote 1 month ago: Now I know that I said a few days ago that I wouldn’t be joining in any more challenges but rules ar … more →

Tags: Book Thoughts, Alice Thomas Ellis, Arthur Conan Doyle, irene nemirovsky, Jane Austen, maeve brennan, Orhan Pamuk, Thomas Mann

Muriel Spark to PiL: The Public Image reconsidered

beatengeneration wrote 1 month ago: PiL/Metal Box (1978) Today is Saturday, there is a Red-shirt UDD protest a few blocks away in my Phr … more →

Tags: British Fiction, Metal Box, Päd, Pil, Politics, post punk, public image limited, udd

Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark

clearingtheshelves wrote 1 month ago:   I always hope the readers of my novels are of good quality. I wouldn’t like to think of anyo … more →

Tags: Books

Mona Lisa Smile, oh my oh my.wow.

bambybam wrote 2 months ago: Mona Lisa Smile is a 2003 American film that was produced by Revolution Studios and Columbia Picture … more →

Tags: Books, Movies, Music, and Julia Stiles., and starring Julia Roberts, directed by Mike Newell, Kirsten Dunst, Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal, Leonardo Da Vinci

Book Guilt... A Short Solution26 comments

savidgereads wrote 2 months ago: With the never ending influx of books (which I love) arriving in the post from you lovely people, fr … more →

Tags: Book Thoughts, Anne Tyler, David Allen Cox, Ian McEwan, irene nemirovsky, jeanette winterson, Joyce Dennys, Kazuo Ishiguro, natalie babbitt

Robert Phillips - Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories

demonik wrote 2 months ago: Robert Phillips (ed.) – The Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories (Robinson 1989, 1992, 1996) … more →

Tags: *Constable/Robinson*, Robert Phillips, Barry N. Malzberg, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Denton Welch, Dylan Thomas, E. M. Forster, Edith Wharton, elizabeth bowen

Book review: Aiding and Abetting

englishcoach wrote 2 months ago: I’m sorry to flood you with book reviews, but I did read a lot on holiday. Just scroll down th … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Books

Pamela Franklin: A Good Bad Girl...2 comments

Joseph Brendan Martin wrote 2 months ago: Before the 1980’s, when an enigmatic beauty named Winona Ryder set teenage boy’s hearts … more →

Tags: Articles, Bette Davis, "deborah kerr", Food of the Gods, Jack Clayton, Joseph Brendan Martin, Julian Gloag, Legend of Hell House, Maggie Smith

Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

cinematophiliac wrote 3 months ago: I kid you not, dear readers-six, that I have been waiting to watch this film for two and a half year … more →

Tags: thoughts on Film, film, Fellini, Bizarre, reality, David Lynch, French, Kubrick, Memory

Classical Anna: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

annacats wrote 3 months ago: The inspirational teacher is a stock character in literature and film, from Jane Eyre’s Miss Temple … more →

Tags: Classical Anna, inspirational character, stock character, The prime of Miss Jean Brodie

First Major Biography of Muriel Spark

jonmsweeney wrote 3 months ago: One of my favorite novelists, and a woman consumed with her Catholic faith, Muriel Spark has needed … more →

Tags: Catholic imagination, Writing as Vocation, Muriel Spark biography, Martin Stannard biography of Muriel Spark, prime of miss jean brodie, Catholic novelist

Book Recommendation: Literary Converts by Joseph Pearce1 comment

djeter wrote 3 months ago: A reader at Amazon wrote: “Starting with Oscar Wilde (of all people) and ending more or less with th … more →

Tags: Book Recommendations, G. K. Chesterton, Malcolm Muggeridge, C. S. Lewis, Evelyn Waugh, Dorothy Sayers, Robert Hugh Benson, I cannot soar and sing my Lord and love, Christopher Dawson

Controversial £1 Million library re-fit to go ahead

alexanderlawrie wrote 3 months ago: By Alexander Lawrie A CONTROVERSIAL million pound re-fit of a popular library which forced a family … more →

Tags: 1, Edinburgh, Pictures], Scotland, Deadline Press & Picture Agency, deadline, Edinburgh News, Ian Rankin, Deadline News


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