There is certainly something to be said for reading a large amount of an author’s work because it provides an opportunity to really discern ...

There is a real sense of futility as the rumours spread of the defeat and the armistice being signed. Now with 100 pages gone all of the mai...

Before I get into commenting on the story today I wanted to mention that like most other people reading these stories without too much knowl...

After the difficult reading experience of The Reprieve this is a more conventional style sticking with a character for a chapter, the diary...

It’s nothing particularly new but more evidence has been made available if it were needed that watching TV rather than reading might make it...

As you read more Salinger and start to appreciate the role that the family plays in his stoties and even when you don't think that it is...

The theme is Seymour again but this time the suicide is dealt with head-on with the holiday in Florida, which was mentioned in Seymour: an I...

The book comes to an end with the mixture of different stories being told in succession carrying onto the last page. The difference compared...

Having posted a week ahead plan last week, which served as both a target and a reminder, it seemed like a good idea to do it again. Plus it ...

When this book by Christopher Isherwood starts you can’t help felling its some sort of travel journal come diary written by someone who is ...

With all this Sartre it seemed apt to dig out a bookmark that was purchased in a castle in Britanny. Don't ask for a translation I'v...

After an odd an uneasy start the penny finally drops and you start to understand that this is a book that the author is finding very hard to...

If there is a theme to the coverage in today’s papers then it is about versions of books with some disagreements about the concept of cuttin...

Just as it seems like war is inevitable it looks like Hitler might back down but the wheels are in motion and the characters move to take up...

Accepting defeat this book is not going to be finished today and so the second third has been read rather than the second half and the enbd ...