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katemacdonald.net
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| | | | | Alexandra Harris, Weatherland Weatherland is really long, and took me over a week to slog through. She has taken the whole of English literature and pressed it lightly through a filter marked 'weather'. Good things emerge, but my quarrel is not with what she found, but the predictability of the works she looked at. Anglo-Saxons,... | |
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| | | | | I had to use square brackets to replace the cunningly designed self-coloured typeface for those words in the title. They're essential, because this is a history book about the development of art in which the male artists' voices, images and works have been muted. Turned down. Just silenced for a bit, so we can see... | |
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katemacdonald.net
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| | | | | I bought this imposing Harvill Press hardback on impulse while looking for something entirely different, and it held me enthralled for five evenings of reading. Before this, I didn't know much about the French Revolution, and I knew nothing about the years between the Terror and Napoleon's coronation. Madame de La Tour du Pin's memoirs... | |
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readingmattersblog.com
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| | | Fiction - paperback; Flamingo; 176 pages; 2003. First published in 1970, Paula Fox'sDesperate Characters has recently been "rediscovered" and much acclaimed by the literary elite (in the introduction to this edition, Jonathan Franzen says that when he first read the book in 1991 he "fell in love with it. It seemed to me obviously superior... | ||
