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Book Thoughts 2012

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Reflecting...

  • Gillian Clarke: At the Source: A Writer's Year

    Gillian Clarke: At the Source: A Writer's Year
    'On the first day of January I open a new journal and mark the clean page with a date, location, a first sentence...it is always an unlined, hardback black book, three inches by five..The first words print the field of snow...'

  • Robert Macfarlane: Mountains of the Mind: a History of a Fascination

    Robert Macfarlane: Mountains of the Mind: a History of a Fascination
    'Contemplating the immensities of deep time, you face, in a way that is both exquisite and horrifying, the total collapse of your present, compacted to nothingness by the pressures of pasts and futures too extensive to envisage...'

  • Tony Judt: The Memory Chalet

    Tony Judt: The Memory Chalet
    'Thus I realize that as a child I was observing far more than understood. Perhaps all children do this, in which case what distinguishes me is only the opportunity that catastrophic ill-health has afforded me to retrieve those observations in a consistent manner... I have a variety of uses to which I can put them. For this alone I consider myself a very lucky man.'

Inspiring...

Listening...

  • Virginia Woolf: To The Lighthouse

    Virginia Woolf: To The Lighthouse
    “Yes, of course, if it’s fine tomorrow,” said Mrs Ramsay. “But you’ll have to be up with the lark,” she added. To her son these words conveyed an extraordinary joy, as if it were settled, the expedition were bound to take place, and the wonder to which he had looked forward, for years and years it seemed, was, after a night’s darkness and a day’s sail, within touch...

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The Tinker's Book

  • Len Chester: Bugle Boy

    Len Chester: Bugle Boy
    Father of dgr and primary historical source now published and on the shelves at a bookshop near you.

Team Tolstoy

  • Team Tolstoy
    A year-long shared read of War & Peace through the centenary year of Count Lyev Nikolayevich Tolstoy's death, starting on his birthday, September 9th 2010. Everyone is welcome to board the troika and read along, meeting here on the 9th of every month to chat in comments about the book.
  • Team Tolstoy Bookmark
    Don't know your Bolkonskys from your Rostovs? An aide memoire that can be niftily printed and laminated into a double-sided bookmark.

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