Welcome to my new home
The start of the new year inspired me to take up something that had been on my to-do-list for a long time. This website is the result. Though the rest of the site is not online yet and this blog still needs tweeking, I’m ready to go public with the blog. I won’t be blogging [...]
Of scary things, mountains and messages
A new post here. That must be a bit of a shock to those three people who still visit this blog or still have it in their feedreader. This is a post I’d been meaning to write for a long time. I’ve been wanting to take up writing here again for I don’t know how [...]
I’m curious
Is there anyone out there in the big wide world who can explain to me why my review of Orlando Figes’ The Whisperers (which I wrote in April of last year) has been getting so many views since July 19? Over half of all the traffic to this blog in the last couple of days [...]
Cats and books: an irresistable combination
Just a quick one. Someone recently came to my blog with this search term: “no book is worth reading if a cat won’t”. Now this is intriguing. If a cat won’t what? Pee on it? Read it too? Tear the book apart? Sleep on it? Any other suggestions?
Book drooling
There’s a new translation of the Arabian Nights out in the UK and I have read some good reviews of it. Three hardcover volumes in a nice box by Penguin Classics. Don’t they look gorgeous? I have been drooling over it since I started seeing the reviews. Unfortunately with a pricetag of 125 British Pounds, [...]
