Snapshot of My Reading

Cover image for Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford

A Snapshot of My Reading #4

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This month’s snapshot includes a novel which disappointed several bloggers whose opinions I trust, a short story collection by an International Booker Prize longlisted author and a memoir by a museum guard. The novel I’m reading is Francis Spufford’s Light Perpetual which I started yesterday so it’s early days. It begins with a devastating event […]

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Cover image for My Husband by Maud Ventura

A Snapshot of My Reading #3

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Quite a mixture this month including one from a much-loved author with a long career behind her and two others by writers I’d not come across before. The novel I’m reading is My Husband by French writer Maud Ventura (transl. Emma Ramadan) in which the narrator is still in the grips of obsessive passion for

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Cover image for Your Absence is darkness by Jón Kalman Stefánsson

A Snapshot of My Reading #2

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I posted the first snapshot of my reading on New Year’s Day, expecting to follow it with another in February which somehow didn’t come off thanks to my gallivanting to London and Stockholm. This month I’m staying put with enough time on my hands to post the second. The novel I’m reading is Your Absence

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