Barbara Comyns Our Spoons Came From Woolworths (The 2016 Reading Challenge: A Book Published Before You Were Born. Our Spoons Came From Woolworths was first published in 1950 and I was definitely born after that.) I found a copy of Comyns’ novel in a charity shop, and bought it for its attention-grabbing title and beautiful…
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Reading Challenge 2016: A Book You Can Read In A Day
Julie Maroh Skandalon Mario Saraceni The Language of Comics I’m kicking off this year’s Reading Challenge with a couple of books, both of which can be read in a day: Julie Maroh’s Skandalon, and Mario Saraceni’s The Language of Comics, and I’m going to use one to discuss the other. A little bit of background…
Who’s up for a reading challenge?
Good morrow, dearest readers, and I apologise whole-heartedly for the neglect of Aunty Muriel’s Blog last year. For me 2015 was, in the words of the great Philip Larkin, a ‘pig’s arse’ of a year, but life goes on in that one-day-after-another kind of way, and I am determined to put behind me all the…
‘Strangers on a Train’: The Hitchcock/Highsmith Smack-Down!
*Please note: spoilers below* Before I begin, I should point out that I’m not the sort of person who usually succumbs to apoplectic rage over the perceived imperfections of a film adaptation of a book. I was, in fact, immensely irritated by those Harry Potter fans who squawked ‘That’s not in the book!’ and then…
People are very funny about books
Me reading a book while on holiday in the Norfolk Broads a couple of years ago People are very funny about books – funny peculiar, that is, rather than funny ha-ha. For example, the last time I bought a bookcase, the retail assistant informed me that the smaller compartments in the particular case I…
