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I'm in medieval London with The Clerkenwell Tales. ... to do some laundry wrecked my plans ..... *gnashing of teeth, in between pathetic sobs*
But the mailman did deliver Clerkenwell Tales by Peter Ackroyd and Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse today, so there's a small warm glow in my heart.
elliepotten - i wish you the very best in finding ... ... a lesser extent The Lambs of London because they give some insight into the daily lives of people of an earlier era.
The Clerkenwell Tales I could not get into at all; Dickens - well, I decided that this book would tell me rather more than I needed to know about the man and I didn't ... ... by Phil Rickman. I felt like reading a light, supernatural thriller after finishing a rather involved, but enjoyable The Clerkenwell Tales by Peter Ackroyd.
#6 Cecilturtle, I read The Red Tent a couple of months ago and just loved it, I agree, it's exceptional. I want to read more ... ... I know that eventually I'll get to all those TBR's. I just have to be in the right frame of mind. When I finished The Clerkenwell Tales which was a bit denser read then I thought it would be, I wanted something that had characters that I could feel more engaged with, something more ... #181 & 182 I love making connections too, that's what I found fun about Clerkenwell Tales. Ackroyd's writing is totally different from Eco's, but the medieval setting, the debates, the interesting info all related through a story is similar. Reading Tales reaffirmed how thankful I am not to ... #100 katylit
I guess Clerkenwell Tales goes on my wish list. I loved The Name of the Rose--I've read it 3 times but not recently. When I get the Ackroyd book maybe I'll read them back to back to compare. (I love to "make connections" between books.) I finished The Clerkenwell Tales which I enjoyed. I found it along the lines of The Name of the Rose in theological debate and medieval tidbits of information.
Now I'm reading The Wine of Angels by Phil Rickman. I've had this for ages - figuratively at the bottom of my TBR pile and just ... ... meet-up:
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly, which I've already read and thoroughly enjoyed.
Now I'm reading The Clerkenwell Tales by Peter Ackroyd which is also very good, I'll be finished it in the next day or so. I'm reading Rereading: Seventeen writers revisit books they ... ... literally; reading a ghost story on a bright, sunshiny day just doesn't evoke the proper atmosphere.
So I'm starting The Clerkenwell Tales by Peter Ackroyd instead. ... we all were talking about
and then other goodies are:
The Book of Lost Things
Once Upon a Time in the North
The Clerkenwell Tales
Lavinia
Victory of Eagles - signed too! Yes, it was a struggle, I was going to wait for the paperback, but I succumbed.
Arthur and George
H ... ... but I thought it started to drag in the last 1/3. I have several otoher Ackroyds in my TBR stacks, including Albion, The Clerkenwell Tales, and his Shakespeare bio. ... ...
1. Troy Chimneys, Margaret Kennedy
2. Amsterdam, Ian McEwan
3. The Cranford Chronicles, Elizabeth Gaskell
4. The Clerkenwell Tales, Peter Ackroyd
5. Not Forgotten, Neil Oliver
6. The Virago Book of Witches, Shahrukh Husain (ed)
7. The Birth of Venus, Sarah Dunant
8. The ... ... of Peter Ackroyd's books are pretty good and related to London - Hawskmoor, Dan Leno And The Limehouse Golem and Clerkenwell Tales in particular. I haven't read The Great Fire Of London or The Lambs Of London
If you want non-fiction then Ackroyd is your man again with his Lond ... ... t.
Lying Awake
Patron Saint of Liars
Abbess of Crewe
In This House of Brede
Black Narcissus
Holy Fools
Clerkenwell Tales
Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy
Also read some of the Margaret Frazer Sister Frevisse mysteries, which are kind of fun, but not keepers.
Anybody ... ... Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley today. The former was wonderful - and I highly recommend it. Similar in structure to The Clerkenwell Tales by Peter Ackroyd, each chapter is told from the point of view of a different character who are all, for various reasons, on the pilgrim route to Me ... I just bought Clerkenwell Tales by Peter Ackroyd. I also got Philosophy 101 by Stanley Rosen.
Clerkenwell Tales was a short book and an easy read. The author tried hard to give an accurate picture of the historical time of which it was written. Philosophy 101 is much bigger and will ... ... it – if anything, Umberto Eco helped me get into mediaeval philosophy, not vice versa!
I would also recommend The Clerkenwell Tales by Peter Ackroyd. It's an intriguing novella, wonderfully evocative of London circa 1400. (If you've read any of Ackroyd's unbearably ... In the mail, from Edward Hamilton:
The book of Saladin by Tariq Ali
The Clerkenwell Tales by Peter Ackroyd
Frangipani by Celestine Vaite
The Virago Book of Christmas edited by Michelle Lovric
Clever Maids by Valerie Paradiz
Melymbrosia by Virginia Woolf
... While there is a basic plot in The Clerkenwell Tales, the style is hardly straighforward. It jumps from person to person and it takes awhile to start to piece together the various individual stories in some coherent sense. As the boingboing post said: "Slipstream may use metafictional ... ... being enthralled at the beginning and just feeling cheated by the ending. I'm going to try Hawksmoor. Would Ackroyd's Clerkenwell Tales qualify as "slipstream"? Not exactly sure if it is strange enough.
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