This week I have been Reading
The 2011 Tour de France race guide.
Watching
An Idiot Abroad
Listening to
The xx
Discovering
(Or rediscovering) Hamlet - Nicki Greenberg's beautiful new version, thanks to the fabulous Snarkattack, who invited me along to see Nicki talk about the creative process behind the book.
Eating
- An enormous serve of bangers'n'mash and a nourishing pint of Kilkenny at the Town Hall one dismal Tuesday evening.
- A "Chachi" - chianina meatball sandwich - another brioche donut and some amazing chocolate tart at Beatrix, which Essjay has reviewed.
- A lazy Sunday lunch at The Crimean. The Polish hunter's stew (bigos) was just the thing to revive me after a chilly bike ride.
- Generous piles of fried food with oodles of chillies and sichuan peppercorns at Sichuan House
- Succulent suckling pig at Liberteene.
- An array of bright, zesty flavours at Chin Chin, where the only problem was having to choose only some of the items from what looks to be a menu that is all hits, no filler.
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By injera, on October 1st, 2008% Following on from the Jezebel list, here is the list from Esquire that prompted its compilation. Again, there are books I’ve read, authors whose other books I’ve read, and books I didn’t realise were books (Deliverance? Legends of the Fall?). Although I’ve read more from this list than from the Jezebel list, there are probably more books on this list that I wouldn’t read (mostly the books I thought were only movies and Blood Meridian, which I’ve tried to read but just… can’t).
The Esquire list also comes with a sentence or two for each book and some of those are just off-putting. Yes, I get that it’s a men’s mag but some of the comments are so … I don’t even know how to express it. “Glib” and “smug” don’t quite capture the squeamishness some of them sparked. Anyway, I managed to overlook most of the comments and just listed the books, but some of them I couldn’t let pass.
Continue reading 75 Books – the Esquire list
By injera, on September 28th, 2008% Jessica at Jezebel recently linked to an Esquire article, “75 Books Every Man Should Read“, and proposed creating an equivalent list for women. Twenty books were offered as a starting point for the list, and readers contributed suggestions, resulting in “75 Books Every Woman Should Read“.
As I read through the list, I was amazed by the number of books I haven’t read. Amongst the “haven’t read” books are a couple that are on my bookshelf, with a when-I-get-around-to-it read date (e.g. Middlemarch, To The Lighthouse), as well as some that have been on my mental bookshelf for some time (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The God of Small Things, White Teeth, Love in a Cold Climate). There are also a surprising number that I haven’t ever considered (Cold Comfort Farm and I Capture The Castle – does seeing them as films count?), as well as some I haven’t heard of. There are, too, some I have no desire to read; Valley of the Dolls and The Golden Notebook do not appeal to me, for different reasons. I’m posting this here to see whether I am able to make some progress against this list (so will check back every now and again to update my strikethroughs) and then I will feel qualified to evaluate it as a representation of books women “should” read…
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