The Dim Pause

Monday, 30 November 2020

Currently reading: The Ruins by Mat Osman 📚

Books

Friday, 20 November 2020

The piles of books I posted a photo of yesterday have been re-housed upstairs. According to Apple Health on my phone, in moving them I did 4752 steps, covered 2.8km and climbed 41 flights of stairs (I think this is an underestimate!). A literary workout. 📚

Photography Books

Thursday, 19 November 2020

Moving four large bookcases. Trying to prevent our books from descending into chaos. 😊 📚

Photography Books

Tuesday, 10 November 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”

Books Links

Thursday, 8 October 2020

Currently reading: The Fire of Joy by Clive James 📚

Books Poetry

Thursday, 8 October 2020

Currently reading: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman 📚

Books

Monday, 28 September 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. 📚

Books Links Poetry

Sunday, 27 September 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.

Books Links Poetry

Wednesday, 16 September 2020

Currently reading: Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present by Yanis Varoufakis 📚

Books Politics

Monday, 14 September 2020

Currently reading: Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis 📚

Books Politics

Sunday, 6 September 2020

Currently reading: Bob Willis: A Cricketer and a Gentleman by Bob Willis and Mike Dickson 📚

Books Cricket

Sunday, 9 August 2020

Finished reading: Matilda Infantry Tank 1938-45 by David Fletcher 📚

Books

Wednesday, 29 July 2020

Currently reading: The Periodic Table by Primo Levi 📚

Books

Wednesday, 22 July 2020

Chris Frantz: Remain in Love 🔗 — Excerpt: David Byrne overwhelms the image of Talking Heads. With his herky-jerky mannerisms, loopy persona and arch lyrics – not to mention his command of the songwriting credits through much of their catalogue – he eclipsed the efforts of every other member of the band. 🎵📚

Books Links Music

Friday, 26 June 2020

Currently reading: The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell 📚

Books

Saturday, 6 June 2020

Currently reading: My Lord, What a Morning by Marian Anderson 📚

Books

Wednesday, 20 May 2020

Currently reading: The Book of Tokyo: A City In Short Fiction (Reading the City) edited by Jim Hinks, Masashi Matsuie & Michael Emmerich 📚

Photography Books

Friday, 24 April 2020

Currently reading: Whatever by Michel Houellebecq 📚

Books

Friday, 17 April 2020

Currently reading: We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer 📚

Books

Tuesday, 14 April 2020

Radical Wordsworth by Jonathan Bate review – fleet-footed and inspiriting 🔗 — Excerpt: In 1798, William Wordsworth arrived from Bristol at the cottage of his friend, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in Nether Stowey in Somerset.

Books Links Poetry

Thursday, 9 April 2020

Currently reading: Ascension by Gregory Dowling 📚

Books

Friday, 27 March 2020

Currently reading: The Feed by Nick Clark Windo 📚