Alcohol has had a starring role in the creative lives of some of the world’s most famous authors. In an essay entitled Alcohol and Poetry Lewis Hyde noted that four of the six Americans who have won the Nobel Prize for Literature were alcoholics, namely William Faulker, Eugene O’Neill, John Steinbeck and Ernest Hemingway. The…
Well, that’s it for another year. 20 Books of Summer ended yesterday and for myself, it has been a great success. All 5199 pages were read and then some! I read all 20 books – although a lot of those review were mini ones, which I had promised myself I would try to avoid. Time…
It’s been another busy week for Reading Ireland Month and this week I concentrated on Non-Fiction, which is really flourishing here in Ireland! I reviewed: Notes to Self by Emilie Pine Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading by Patricia Craig Maeve Brennan Wit, Style & Tragedy: an Irish Writer in New York by Angela Bourke…
