Originally posted on victorianclare:
‘True Detective – Rust’ by Nagy Norbert. Like many, many others, I’ve been captivated by HBO’s latest offering, True Detective. On the face of it a genre piece, a detective story, a serial killer story, centering on the sexual murder of women and children. And yet, as numerous cultural commentators soon…
So I’m halfway through March Madness and here are a few things I’ve learned: ~ I play Temple Run 2 procrastinate too much ~ It is impossible to read while blow-drying your hair ~ it is possible to read while applying makeup but not advisable ~ having March Madness coincide with the last two episodes…
3/10 of March Madness Christopher Reid won the Costa Book Award in 2009 for this collection of poetry documenting the death of his wife, the actress Lucinda Gane. I bought it shortly after and was never able to read it due to the fact that my mother died in 2009 and my father a mere…
2/10 of March Madness! I’m not quite sure where to start with this one. This is the first play I’ve covered in the 746 and it won’t be the last, but I realise there will be a disconnect between talking about a play script as read and discussing a production of said play. My background…
March Madness Reads 1/10 I’ve been quiet lately. I’ve been reading. March Madness is upon me and 5 days in, I’ve managed 2 of my 10 reads. I decided to start with a book that has been on my shelf for probably well over 5 years and had been started and abandoned several times. In…
“Have I gone mad? I’m afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usually are.” Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland So, clearly, because I haven’t set myself a ridiculous enough challenge with my blog as a whole, I have been persuaded to take part in March Madness by the lovely Juliana at Cedar…
I’ve been nominated for a Liebster Award by the fantastic silence cunning exile…maple syrup blog. I am really honoured by this, I’ve only been blogging for a few months and am just grateful that I have a few followers! Thank you so much to Niall at Silence & Cunning, please do check out his award winning…
Between the man who was coolly deciding to cut his victim’s Achilles tendons and wondering what it would sound like, and the man who’d smiled at his wife that very morning in a room saturated with the fragrance of freshly baked bread, there was clearly a gap. Exactly what the gap consisted of he couldn’t…
I have a confession to make. I cannot remember buying this book. I can only imagine that after a few glasses of wine and a browse on Flavorwire something about it tickled my fancy and off I popped to iBooks. Because that’s just how I (used to) roll. I also have to confess; I haven’t…
I’m not a hearts and flowers type of girl, so this is my kind of love poem…. Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion. It is a moon wrapped in brown paper. It promises light like the careful undressing of love. Here. It will blind you with…
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