


Six Degrees of Separation: From God to Elvis!
No 450 Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico by Javier Marías
I read Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico by Javier Marías and translated by Esther Allen, as part of Novellas in November, but am only getting around to reviewing this little gem now. Coming in at a mere 56 pages, Bad Nature is one of those books that is perfectly formed but you wish…

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Some reading options for Diverse December!

Novellas in November Wrap Up!

November Miscellany

A Nonfiction round up for Nonfiction November!
Sunday Praise: What’s Made Me Happy This Week?
I managed to have a coffee with a good friend before everything closed up again for two weeks and it was nice to feel briefly normal! The brilliant Stephen Sexton, who I have raved about before on the blog, has only gone and won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature 2020 for his first collection,…

Three short classics from the 746 for #NovNov
No 454 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle #NovNov
I sometimes marvel that I have got to the age I have without reading any Arthur Conan Doyle. Sometimes I think, a character becomes so ingrained into the public consciousness (Holmes or Poirot say) that it’s easy to forget the need to actually read the stories they appear in! So, I decided to start with…

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