This month I have made a conscious effort to finish a number of half-read books and finally investigate some that have been on my […]
Italy A full two weeks of the April were spent in Italy – most of the trip was spent in Perugia, a town located in […]
Starting Vol. 3 of 'In Search of Lost Time', The Guermantes Way. Pity I am back at work tomorrow...that tends to slow down my progress with #Proust ;) #reading pic.twitter.com/Lfwp…
A stark contrast to what we are experiencing in 2021.…
currently reading 1984 for the umpteenth time, it's still th…
Lot of stuff about Blair that I have never read before, as a…
An interesting article Darcy. While rue Cardinal Lemoine is…
Brilliant post Darcy. It is so true that students need a lib…
“Among the letters in Orwell’s possession at his death was one from Ruth Graves, whom he had known twenty years earlier, in Paris. She had, she said, read all his […]
Every day I work on the edit of my book. I slog away, shifting chunks of material and moving them back, eating my salad in a daze, wondering if the […]
Wearing the uniform of a British officer, George Orwell returned to Paris in February 1945 as a war correspondent for The Observer and Manchester Evening News. He had resigned as […]
My positive disposition towards George Orwell On Screen (Adaptations, Documentaries and Docudramas on Film and Television) – before ever getting to read it – was due to David Ryan‘s generous assistance. The author provided […]
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My #reading: July 2016
Historians indeed hope that their books might entwine intimately with the lives of their readers and that their histories may sit on bedside tables ready […]