New blog post by Vagabond Heart – discussions in this thread, please
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This part of the book had the men taking centre stage. Shakespeare had hit his stride. At least, that’s what I’d heard, and I was interested to see if they lived up to the hype. Were they really mad, bad, and dangerous to...
New blog post by Vagabond Heart – discussions in this thread, please
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I was approaching the halfway mark of my Shakespeare-a-thon, and methought it was time for some top scores. The Big H was coming up, so I was well excited. That’s got to deliver the goods, I thought, otherwise why was it...
New blog post by Vagabond Heart – discussions in this thread, please
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I was cracking on with my stupidly self-imposed lockdown challenge to read The Complete Works of Shakespeare. I’d met a few Henry’s now, and although I knew one of them was meant to be rousing stuff, I had no clue which...
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New blog post by Vagabond Heart – discussions in this thread, please
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Full of enthusiasm for my lockdown project of reading The Complete Works of Shakespeare, I wandered blindly on to play number 5.
Some time later I stumbled back out, wondering if there’s any wriggle-room on those do not...
Like some reanimated mutilated corpse in a giallo B-movie filmed by Dario Argento…
It’s back!
This month’s One Perfect Sentence is open.
So is your mind.
Let them communicate with each other.
https://colony.litopia.com/threads/one-perfect-sentence-october-2024.14989/
Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your neighbours and colleagues, and to help prevent divorces thanks to the sheer bother of arguing over who owns what.
J. P. Donleavy
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The man who read the world: David Bowie’s son launches an online book club in his honour. Something not well known about Bowie: he was an avid reader, sometimes finishing a book in a single day. Rock star David Bowie was “a beast of a reader,” according to his son, Duncan Jones; so Jones...
Update: this has been rescheduled, per Jonny's request.
Join us for a discussion of Piranesi, presented by Jonny!
Jason Locke is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: 21 September 2023: Susanna Clarke - Piranesi
Time: Sep 21, 2024 08:00 PM Greenwich Mean Time
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It's my pleasure to notify you that your submission has moved forward to the second round of jury deliberations for the SLF's Older Writers Grants. We hope to have a final decision for you soon, but we are currently working through a higher than usual number of applications. Please...
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