Monthly Archives: October 2005
Save or Delete
If we don’t act now, the terrible irony is that our great grandchildren will only know of our ancient forests through pictures in books printed on the paper that contributed to their destruction Publishers Bloomsbury, Penguin, and BBC Books have … Continue reading
No let-up in the sickness
It starts when I wake up. In fact, I think it wakes me up. A grumbling, empty, nausea. I lie in bed trying to decide whether it will be worse to go to the bathroom or to stay still. Eventually … Continue reading
Love & Loss
Written on the Body, by Jeanette Winterson This is a beautiful book, apart from a few pages of tripe in the middle, and the crappy happy ending. I expect those are the poetic bits that everyone else is moved to … Continue reading
Trials and Tribulations
47.Babel Tower, by AS Byatt Oh, what to say about this very big, dense book. I enjoyed it, but there were bits that I had to read more lightly than others. Yes, dear reader, sometimes I skim the lengthy passages … Continue reading
Somebody, please, think of the children!
I occasionally read a blog written by an english teacher. A teacher of english language and literature, that would be; not a teacher who is english. Although I’m fairly sure that he is, in fact, some sort of Brit. I … Continue reading