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Top books we lie about reading to appear more cultured

March 30, 2017 By Ellen

The best blogs are about making you feel that you aren’t alone in your secret little shame. You read them to feel better about feeding your children toast three times a day, cleaning your bathroom with your dirty knickers or fancying Tyrion Lannister. That kind of thing. This one’s about the books you pretend to […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: books, education, fiction, humour, in my life, reading, slacker's guide, travel, writing

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

March 28, 2017 By Ellen

Is it possible to love and hate a book in equal measure? After raving at length, the Panther insisted I read The Road by Cormac McCarthy. So, in spite of Terry Pratchett and because of Philip Pullman, I picked up the volume. Hopes weren’t high, it has to be said. A “post-apocalyptic fight for survival” […]

Filed Under: book review, books, Cormac McCarthy, The Road, wordy wonders Tagged With: books, fiction, The Road, writing

A slacker’s guide to Treasure Island

March 16, 2017 By Ellen

  OK, I am not as on track with the Slacker’s Guide than I’d hoped to be. In the same way that only getting half-way up a hill twice does not equal having bagged a Munro, half of Moby Dick plus half of Anna Karenina don’t equal two properly ticked off classics. Ho hum. Maybe […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: books, creative writing, education, fiction, literature, reading, Robert Louis Stevenson, slacker's guide, something happened in my world, Treasure Island, writing

I wish I was more like Amory Clay (Sweet Caress – William Boyd)

October 2, 2015 By Ellen

Every so often between the pages of a book, I find someone who lives, breathes and walks around in my mind. They enter my dreams and then I miss them as though they once sat across from me with a coffee cup, telling me a story. This week, I’m grieving a little for Amory Clay. […]

Filed Under: review Tagged With: adventure, books, fiction, in the world, novel, photography, Review, William Boyd, writing

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