Moving four large bookcases. Trying to prevent our books from descending into chaos. 😊 📚
Category: Books
Posted on November 10, 2020
Mary Wollstonecraft finally honoured with statue after 200 years. 🔗
> It shows a silvery naked everywoman figure emerging free and defiantly from a swirling mingle of female forms and, thanks to a 10-year slog of fundraising, is the world’s only memorial sculpture to a woman known as the “mother of feminism”
Posted on October 8, 2020
Currently reading: The Fire of Joy by Clive James 📚
Posted on October 8, 2020
Currently reading: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman 📚
Posted on September 28, 2020
Clive James: 'The poems I remember are the milestones marking the journey of my life' 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ What makes great poetry? An exclusive extract from the late critic’s final book The Fire of Joy celebrates the poems he loved most. 📚
Posted on September 27, 2020
'He returned to what he really was': Clive James's daughter on his poetic farewell 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ Ten months before his death last year at the age of 80, Clive James underwent an eight-hour operation to remove a tumour on his face. Already very frail – he had been suffering from leukaemia for a decade – afterwards it took him almost a week to emerge fully into consciousness.
Posted on September 16, 2020
Currently reading: Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present by Yanis Varoufakis 📚
Posted on September 14, 2020
Currently reading: Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis 📚
Posted on September 6, 2020
Currently reading: Bob Willis: A Cricketer and a Gentleman by Bob Willis and Mike Dickson 📚
Posted on August 9, 2020
Finished reading: Matilda Infantry Tank 1938-45 by David Fletcher 📚