Oh my stars!
Thought for life
- 'We are the carriers of lives and legends - who knows the unseen frescoes on the private walls of the skull?' The House of Breath William Goyen, 1975
Post-It Quote of the Day
- Alain-Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes'I am speaking of a far-away time - a vanished happiness.'
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You're from where?
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READ 2012
Nicola Beauman: A Very Great Profession: The Woman's Novel 1914-39 (*****)
Mark Easton: Britain etc. (*****)
Anne Tyler: Noah's Compass (****)
Claire Tomalin: The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens (*****)
Mike Seaborne: London Street Photography 1860-2010 (Museum of London) (*****)
Alex Werner: Dickens's Victorian London: The Museum of London (****)
Joshua Foer: Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (****)
John Demos: The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America (****)
Doris Lessing: Alfred and Emily (*****)
Edmund de Waal: The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance (*****)
Georgina Harding: The Spy Game (*****)
Stephen Foster: Walking Ollie: Or Winning the Love of a Difficult Dog (***)
Amitav Ghosh: Sea of Poppies (*****)
Reading for Writers
- Gail Sher: One Continuous Mistake
- Goldberg: Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America
- Louise A. DeSalvo: Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives
- Helene Cixous: Helene Cixous, Rootprints: Memory and Life Writing
- Susan Sellers (ed): Delighting the Heart: Notebook by Women Writers
- Sei Shonagon: The Pillow Book (Classics)
- Helene Cixous: Coming to Writing and Other Essays
- Italo Calvino: Invisible Cities (Vintage Classics)
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