Odd Bits About Books
Do you like reading? Good, then we can be friends. Let me tell you about some of the things that I’ve found…
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Surprise Gifts
On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me a partridge in a pear tree. Honestly, it was a total surprise. I’d not put that on my Christmas list and I definitely hadn’t been dropping any hints or anything. I won’t say it was thoughtful exactly – I’ve never had any interest in…
What Charlotte Lucas’s Little Brother Would Do If He Was Rich
I’m currently reading an absolutely brilliant non-fiction book called Nabokov’s Favourite Word Is Mauve: The literary quirks and oddities of our most-loved authors by Ben Blatt. Here’s a bit from the blurb: What are our favourite authors’ words? Which bestselling writer uses the most clichés? How can we judge a book by its cover? Data meets literature…
M. R. James and the Talking Owl
You know M. R. James, right? Cambridge academic by day, wrote ghost stories (appropriately enough) at night. He’s had a huge influence in horror, especially folk horror, and redefined ghost stories – he can so imply and suggest his way through a story that it will leave you unable to trust your own cupboards (true…
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