John McNally's After the Workshop Counterpoint, 2010 Not just another bookish Friday, nope: this bookish-book Friday comes to you thanks to Sasha and the Silverfish, whose rave post about John McNally's novel ensured its placement -- and her acknowledgement -- in my Bad Blogger's category. The TwentyTen Reading Challenge demands
I took some courses in university in Japanese History and read a fair number of novels then, but, since, I have read Japanese authors spottily. One particular favourite, however, is Banana Yoshimoto and I still have one of her works to look forward to: Hardboiled and Hard Luck Trans. from
When is a Challenge too challenging? Conversely, when is it not challenging at all? What’s your happiest Challenge memory? Your biggest disappointment? I’ve just finished two reading Challenges, which of course has me believing that I am an invincible reader. First I finished the 100+ Books Challenge. I think the
Matthew Battles' Library: An Unquiet History W.W. Norton & Company, 2003 Welcome to my second bookish Friday. I've got notes that will take this theme halfway through July and I am thrilled; some of these are books I've meant to read for years, whereas others, like next Friday's choices, are
Nobody was waiting for Clare Clark's Savage Lands when I initially borrowed it from the library, having requested it weeks ahead when the Orange Prize longlist had been announced. So I was really surprised when it came time to renew it and I found that it had a hold queue,
