Dangers in the Dark; A Monster Calls and The Raven
You’re curled up in bed, it may not be dark yet, but the sun is taking its leave and the sky is darkening from blue …
Posts in category Literature
It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want To Be.
It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want To Be was a book which I happened to stumble across in Urban Outfitters and …
Albert Camus: The Outsider (L’étranger)
There are literary classics. And there are great literary classics. “The Outsider” by Albert Camus belongs to the later group. Albert was born in Algeria in …
Fifty Shades of Dismay
Fifty Shades of Grey is, without doubt, one of the worst books I have ever read. After throwing it in the bin, ‘my subconscious told …
Fifty Shades…
Every girl, everywhere, is caught up in the debate over the literary revolution ushered in by the arrival of E. L. James’s Fifty Shades trilogy. …
Jack Kerouac: Big Sur
Big Sur relates the biographical adventures of Jack Kerouac (hidden under his alter-ago Jack Duluoz) ten years after his success with On the Road. A more mature novel, …
Charles Bukowski: Love is a dog from hell
Charles Bukowski used to write with his head, and forgot the heart very often. He was born in Germany but spent most of his life …
Poet in the City: Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer
2011’s Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Tomas Tranströmer, one of Scandinavia’s best loved poets. The 80-year-old Swede suffered a devastating stroke in 1990 …
“A Woman yes, but Still Funny.”
If you only read one book this year make sure it’s Caitlin Moran’s ‘How to be a Woman.’ I have to be honest the title …
Is Writing in its Lengthy Form a Dying Art? Micro-Fiction
In my last post I wrote about the written form shortening in media and the rise of micro-blogging. But this condensation can also be seen …