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2020: A Year In Books

22 Tuesday Dec 2020

Posted by marina72 in Art and Photography, Books, Fiction, Non-Fiction

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A Thousand Moons, A Year in Books, Adiana Shibli, Ana Maria Matute, Arthur Morrison, Celia Stahr, Daddy, Death In Her Hands, Eimear McBride, Elena Ferrante, Emma Cline, Emma Donoghue, Erika Lee Sears, Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, Fernanda Melchor, Frida in America, Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo and San Francisco, Graphic Novel, Hettie Judah, Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick, Hurricane Season, Irish Literature, Jack, Louise Erdrich, Marilynne Robinson, Mexico, Minor Detail, Native American Literature, Ottessa Moshfegh, Palestine, Rickard Sisters, Robert Tressell, Sam Selvon, Sebastian Barry, Short Stories, Socialism, Spain, Strange Hotel, The Housing Lark, The Island, The Last Interview, The Lying Life of Adults, The Night Watchman, The Pull of the Stars, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Windrush, Working Class Writers, Zora Neale Hurston

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The turmoil of 2020 hasn’t affected my reading much, although I miss going to the library and have turned instead to Kindle. Among the 100+ books I’ve read this year, I’ve enjoyed discoveries old and new, plus the latest output from my favourite contemporary authors. However, some of my greatest pleasures lay in neglected midcentury classics which finally got their due. Continue reading →

2016: A Year in Fiction

23 Friday Dec 2016

Posted by marina72 in Books, Fiction

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A Girl Called Pearl, A Year in Books, Alexander Baron, Annabel Abbs, Arturo's Island, City of Secrets, Eimear McBride, Elena Ferrante, Elsa Morante, Emma Cline, Emma Donoghue, Fallen Land, Harper Lee, Javier Marias, Jean Rhys, Jill Dawson, LaRose, Leonard Michaels, Louise Erdrich, Lucia Joyce, Madonna in a Fur Coat, Magda Szabo, Michelle Morgan, News of the World, Patricia Highsmith, Patrick Hamilton, Paulette Jiles, Sabahattin Ali, Sara Taylor, Stewart O'Nan, Sylvia, Taylor Brown, The Beach at Night, The Crime Writer, The Door, The Girls, The Joyce Girl, The Lauras, The Lesser Bohemians, The Lost Daughter, The Wonder, Thus Bad Begins

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This extraordinary second novel from Eimear McBride charts the unlikely romance of a young Irish drama student and a world-weary actor, set in gritty, hedonistic North London during the 1990s. Together the lovers confront their demons, and the narrative is both emotionally brutal and often highly erotic. Continue reading →

2016: A Year In Non-Fiction

22 Thursday Dec 2016

Posted by marina72 in Amy Winehouse, Books, Brighton, Film, History, Lana Del Rey, Music, Non-Fiction, Politics, Witchcraft, Writing

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A Year in Books, Amy Winehouse, Another Day in the Death of America, BFI Stars, Blondie, British Witches of Sussex, Elena Ferrante, F.A. Mannan, Frances Farmer, Frantumaglia, Gary Younge, I'm Not In the Band, Jean Rhys, Journalism, Julie Christie, Lana Del Rey, Letters, Lyndsy Spence, Margaret Lockwood, Melanie Bell, Natalie Wood, Nathalie Leger, Peter Shelley, Rebecca Sullivan, Suite For Barbara Loden, Sylvia Patterson

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British journalist Gary Younge has a sharp eye for how political events impact on ordinary lives. While living in Chicago, he investigated the stories behind the blunt statistics of ten children and teenagers shot dead in a single day. Never intrusive, but quietly devastating, Another Day in the Death of America illuminates with rare power. Continue reading →

2015: A Year in Books

16 Wednesday Dec 2015

Posted by marina72 in Books, Fiction, Film, Madonna, Marilyn Monroe, Music, Non-Fiction

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A Manual for Cleaning Women, A Year in Books, Alberto Moravia, Backlands, Before Marilyn, Bobbie Gentry, C. Joseph Greaves, Caryl Phillips, Cathi Unsworth, Clarice Lispector, David L. Jones, David Wills, Eileen, Elena Ferrante, Encyclopedia Madonnica 20, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fires in the Dark, Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee, Louise Doughty, Lucia Berlin, Madonna, Marilyn in the Flash, Marilyn Monroe, Matthew Rettenmund, Michelle Morgan, Ode to Billie Jo, Otessa Moshfegh, Rebecca Wait, Stewart O'Nan, Tara Murtha, The Followers, The Ipswich Witch, The Lost Child, The Story of the Lost Child, The Time of Indifference, Tom & Lucky (and George & Cokey Flo), Victoria Shorr, West of Sunset, Without the Moon, Wuthering Heights

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Reading Clarice Lispector for the first time is like falling in love. Each of her stories is a rare jewel. Shocking, funny and wildly imaginative, this collection is a landmark, reclaiming her as one of the underrated voices of the twentieth century.

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The final volume in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series rages like a cyclone. No happy endings here, only the transcendence of real art.

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Lucia Berlin was a wonderful American writer, whose stories are warm, yet unflinching. She led an eventful life, and while there are strong autobiographical elements in her work, she was also richly imaginative. Continue reading →

Best Books of 2014

23 Tuesday Dec 2014

Posted by marina72 in Books, Fiction, History, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction

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A Commonplace Killing, A Hoxton Childhood, A Year in Books, A.S. Jasper, Amy Greene, Betty May, Branwell Bronte, Brewster, Carl Rollyson, Colm Toibin, Elena Ferrante, Fallout, James Scott, Lila, Long Man, Marilyn Monroe, Marilynne Robinson, Mark Slouka, Nora Webster, Robert Edric, Sadie Jones, Sanctuary, Sian Busby, The Kept, Those Who Leave And Those Who Stay, Tiger Woman

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This year has been all about Elena Ferrante and her Neapolitan novels for me. Autumn reaped a rich harvest in fiction, and there have also been some fine reissues.  Continue reading →

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