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 […]
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…
Thanks Richard. I checked out your blog and particularly enj…
“I have heard briefly from Edith Morgan, at Christmas. She was visiting in Rome.” […]
George Orwell spent five years working as a police officer during the 1920s before unexpectedly resigning to become a writer. There is compelling circumstantial evidence to suggest he experimented with […]
“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 […]
“As a child I lived in a home that was full of books … Rare works and first editions were kept under lock and key, and it took all my […]
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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 […]