Member: linus_evans

I remembered what those two books were: David Lodge's Changing Places and then Small World, which is the 'romance' themed one, as in Middle English, not Mills and Boon: or is it?

posted by MissAlabaster at 9:03 pm (EST) on Oct 29, 2009

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblo...

Here's the original blog, 4 pages of it.

posted by MissAlabaster at 8:28 am (EST) on Oct 20, 2009

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblo...

Guess who is my particular bete noire on the Guardian poetry blog: she argued t'other week that Donne was a raving anti-feminists for writing The Sunne Rising...

posted by MissAlabaster at 4:26 pm (EST) on Oct 19, 2009

Where's my fame and sodding fortune, eh? Aled produced me doing a radio show: I could've been the next Lamacq (I won't say Peel, my taste for Japanese avante-garde screamo is very, very limited).

posted by MissAlabaster at 3:00 pm (EST) on Sep 28, 2009

We've met him, you know! We're seeing him for the third time this month, Richard Herring and Andrew Collins are doing their podcast recording on Friday (front row, dead centre) and Daniel Kitson, who is a little known genius this month. I love the Chris Moyles thing: it irks me that my friend from caffi Morgan in Aber is now his producer.

Sigh..

posted by MissAlabaster at 2:03 pm (EST) on Sep 28, 2009

Now here's someone whose book fetish I can get behind:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2...

posted by MissAlabaster at 11:40 am (EST) on Sep 27, 2009

Please don't ever say that! Think this instead:
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/inter...

posted by MissAlabaster at 8:44 am (EST) on Sep 26, 2009

Argh! No more Austen pastiche, PLEASE! P&P&Zombies tiresome beyond belief, a couple of chuckles but so many stupid inaccuracies that could so easily have been checked, eg chipmunks in England! And the stupid double entendres that started creeping in...Put it this way, I shan't be holding onto that one.

Liked the Huxley/Orwell comparison though, thought-provoking.

posted by MissAlabaster at 7:26 pm (EST) on Jul 29, 2009

Hang on: have you just made me join this gathering of closet SF/Fantasy fans? Or is it my own books that are skewing the results like this? Have you seen the group author cloud? TERRY PRATCHETT is as big as SHAKESPEARE! Not that I am complaining but to see Marion Zimmer Bradley and Orson Scott Caird that enormous...something's going on...

Make me stop scrabbling around my house for ever more books! Did I tell you I have an actual library these days? A summer house of my very own, mainly because I think Jon fears the books would take over the house if they were let in at night. I secretly think he might be right, I'm sure they are breeding.

posted by MissAlabaster at 7:37 pm (EST) on Mar 9, 2009

Hello Linus - just thought I'd drop by and say hello as I see that we two are the only ones to fess up to owning In Search of Charm. Have you had occasion to use it much? My bwidesmaid found it of enormous use on our wedding day to dispense some advice to me before I made the plunge.

posted by alexdaw at 5:41 pm (EST) on Dec 26, 2008

Oh yeah, I like Yeats too, especially 'dance there upon the shore, what need have you to care for wind or water's roar...' and 'had I the heaven's embroidered cloth...'. I like His Coy Mistress too, great wordcraft, especially the last few lines. I hadn't heard the haiku before, but like it. I think my favourite at the moment is Tennyson's Ulysses, also Captain of my Soul.

posted by kmstock at 6:04 pm (EST) on May 6, 2008

K 2 'l'x:

Ah, let no one say I'm not versatile! You certainly have an interesting range of books - I like your shadow picture. Is this you (metaphorically speaking)?

Hey I see you're into poetry - what is one of your favourite poems?

posted by kmstock at 6:36 am (EST) on May 2, 2008