Archive for December, 2006
The promiscuous use of italics
Yesterday’s 30 pages of canon-lite was Pat Barker’s Regeneration ( I know she is not quite canonical but there was no Bellow on the bookshelves – stolen every one by literate nieces I suspect). It’s probably unfortunate that Pat finds herself standing directly behind Jane Austen in the queue but the first 26 pages felt [...]
Posted: December 30th, 2006 under Pre-2009.
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Jamming with Jane and the importance of Ernest, Cushnie, Aberdeenshire
As indicated in the previous post I have embarked on another of my ‘mad-cap’ self improvement projects – to read the first 30 pages of ‘the canon’ A to Z – this way at least I can say I’ve read Austen, Cather, Defoe, Eliot. Pride & Prejudice is the first victim and yes – it’s [...]
Posted: December 29th, 2006 under Pre-2009.
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The Project
Those who know me will be aware that I am an uncultured and untutored creature with some facility at assimilating facts and textures but no depth of reading. I have a wide and shallow frame of reference. Sorry. I’ve been busy and it’s all I could afford. I feel ashamed – really I do. But [...]
Posted: December 26th, 2006 under Pre-2009.
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