Because it is the third. And having read the other two, it was inevitable. I had to buy it of course, and stomped through it in a matter of evenings. Skipped the appendixes, I don’t feel any desire for a … Continue reading
Yes, because this follows the previous and is subsequently predecessor to the next. Actually, it’s brilliant winter reading when outside is a snotty melted-snow ice-clag of freezing grey wetness. Reading: J. R. R. Tolkien — The Two Towers
What do you expect? I read The Hobbit, of course I’m going to go on to the whole Lord of the Rings. If I’m lucky, I’ll find something else to read before Unfinished Tales drops off the shelf on me. … Continue reading
Ah well, pretty obvious, no? Because it is on my shelf in easy reach, and I haven’t read it for years. J. R. R. Tolkien — The Hobbit
This is one book I’ve been waiting for a long time to arrive. It was around August last year when first set to be published, and I was fearing it would remain elusively in the future. So now, the top … Continue reading
Waiting months and finally it’s arrived and waiting for me … continuing a long Afghan tradition, Poetry of the Taliban.
Shortly before departing for Brussels, I finished Susan Mann’s brilliant The Talented Women of the Zhang Family, and began Gail Hershatter’s equally sublime The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past, which I’m still slowly chewing through. Both these books … Continue reading
In early 2008, before I moved to Berlin, I had a book-buying spree, and a couple of those books I didn’t finish before it was time to pack them all into boxes and off to storage, where they would remain … Continue reading
howard barker – death, the one and the art of theatre
hafiz – the gift. trans. daniel ladinsky