Favourite Books?
Saturday, February 11th, 2012
Reading can be a sneaky business. Even now, I still get told, come on let’s DO something sometimes when I am ‘caught’ reading, as if reading is somehow a squandering of time without any proper focus or purpose, an indulgence whilst others concentrate on more important things. This furtive, private quality to reading and perhaps [...]
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Monday, January 30th, 2012
Pip is a very susceptible and vulnerable young man, who reads his emotionally sabotaging companions, Miss Havisham and Estella, very hopefully indeed! I have talked in another blog post about the importance of attention in close textual analysis. I also suggested that the skills we use in reading our relationships of others, can prove very [...]
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
Pablo Neruda’s poem embraces the suffering endured by human beings because they choose to differentiate themselves so keenly and resolutely from one another. The I/thou relationship so fraught with misunderstanding, isolates the self, weighting the ‘I’ with the unbearable burden of being. Yet ‘all of us are dust and sand.’ We have lost our [...]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
A Revisitation! Carol Ann Duffy’s poem Havisham was the very first poem I taught as a Private English Tutor and was the first poem I encountered from the AQA Anthology. I remember saying a mental ‘hurrah’ to myself when I started to read it with my first student and applauding the genius of Duffy for [...]
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
Jeanette Winterson’s reading of her new book, Why be happy when you could be normal? at the Royal Exchange on Sunday 30th October was wonderful in the most real sense of the word. She read parts of her autobiography almost in a trance like, dancing way, as if the words had come back to her from [...]
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Sunday, October 16th, 2011
A Wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its [...]
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Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
Everyone has a taste for villainy in fiction or films. Even good characters have flaws or imperfections so that they do not seem too far away from us. Shakespeare gave his tragic heroes, ‘tragic flaws’. These flaws lead each hero inevitably to their own fated downfall and yet these flaws also serve to remind us of [...]
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
A courier knocked at my door just after midday and presented me with the slim parcel that revealed itself as Carol Ann Duffy’s brand new collection-The Bees. Hurrah for ebay as Amazon would have made me wait until October. Its a very full collection with a few superb poems already published to acclaim including [...]
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Sunday, September 18th, 2011
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity–but that would be asking too much of fate! Still I will [...]
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Saturday, August 27th, 2011
I first read The Master and Margarita at Liverpool University when I was studying Russian Studies with English. My tutor Professor Arnold McMillin found my reaction slightly bizarre. as I found myself secretly crossing myself at the terrible revelation that in such a morally surreal world as Bulgakov’s Moscow, the figure of Woland( aka the [...]
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