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A slacker’s guide to Middlemarch

December 20, 2016 By Ellen

The first of the list and I’m nearly there – only 25 of 95 chapters remaining. I’m enjoying having it read to me by Juliet Stevenson. There is no doubt that the skills of an actor make the potentially confusing dialogue easier to digest. This more than makes up for the difficulty in looking up […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned, review Tagged With: classics, creative writing, George Eliot, in my life, Middlemarch, reading, Review, slacker's guide, Something happened in my life, writing

A slacker’s guide to classic novels

December 15, 2016 By Ellen

OK. You know those lists that have all the books you should have read? The ones, in my case, that I feel quite smug about To Kill A Mockingbird and Brave New World, but pretty inadequate about almost everything else. Those. My powers of bluster and google had in the most part got me through. […]

Filed Under: book, book review, book shelf, books, Creative Writing, reading, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: classics, in my life, novels, on my mind, slacker's guide, Something happened in my life, something happened in my world, things I've learned, writing

The morning train

September 30, 2016 By Ellen

Later they would say that morning held a bleakly uneasy sense of doom. That the birds didn’t sing and the drizzle on the windows ran like tears. But they’d be making it up. It is a perfectly ordinary Tuesday morning and the train is silent but for the shushing and muttering from headphones and the […]

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How much is more than I can chew?

September 19, 2016 By Ellen

It started last week – my MLitt in creative writing at the University of Glasgow. And in the manner that very much I imagine it will continue. There I was convinced I didn’t need to be there until noon when I thought I’d better check. 10am. That’s when I need to be there – in […]

Filed Under: Creative Writing, My Life Tagged With: creative writing, Glasgow, in my life, MLitt, My Life, on my mind, Something happened in my life, something happened in my world, University, 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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