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The Last Life by Claire Messud. Sagesse LaBasse's life seems pretty sweet, on the face of it: her parents and grandparents own and run ...

Here's one for the COINCIDENCE? OR IS IT?* files:  Adjourn to bed and pick up my current book (featuring trees prominently as a narrativ...

Well.

A couple of footnotes to the last post - I have no idea how likely Siss and Unn are as names for young girls in 1960s Norway ( The Ice Pala...

The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas. Siss is just a regular girl (not sure if her age is ever stated explicitly, but I think we are to assume a...

One thing I could have added to the review of The Overstory is that the endpoint of Patricia's logical train of thought about how to sa...

The Overstory by Richard Powers. Hate trees? You'll hate this. Then again, what kind of idiot hates trees ? Those great big lovable woo...

A quick follow-up to the previous post which also serves as an opportunity to plug the fantastic map-related service provided by the Nation...

More non- book -related posts, for the love of God, you say? Electric Halibut hears your anguished cries and rides to the rescue on his wing...

After a period of relative inactivity comprising only one authorial death in a little over eighteen months, the Curse of Electric Halibut is...

Count Zero by William Gibson. Turner is a man who Gets Shit Done. Usually the messy kind of shit the big corporate overlords don't want...

Here's the annual blog stats roundup, including graphs, if you like that sort of thing. The main headline news here is that this year (...

The Waterfall by Margaret Drabble. Jane Gray - no, not that one - is having a mixed time of it. A published poet - hooray! - but not writi...

A bit of an end-of-year tidy-up of unblogged stuff here, in particular this photo which I came across when looking at some stuff on Google P...