a wonderful novel which sat on my shelf for a year, despite its having won the costa, on account of a lacklustre cover which suggests that it's a comfortingly beige love story for the timid lady reader, whereas it's mostly about the wartime experiences of lancaster tail-gunner with a great deal of death and violence along with the romance. and countless passages which just sing...
i love this for puerile reasons, obviously. but for aesthetic reasons, too. the hungarian edition of boom!
the deadline for becoming a 'giver' has been extended to 24th january. so if you fancy helping give away a million book on sat 25 march...
this is quite wonderful. i am tempted to say, read it because... but if there is one thing which binds together the many disparate fans of montaigne it is that they have all found something different in his essays (mostly commonly a uncannily prescient version of themselves) and therefore have very different reasons for recommending them. this, however, is the perfect place to start to find out why you might love them.
i'd completely forgotten about this until i stumbled on it the other day. it remains one of the most beautiful (and addictive) websites i know. click on the open source link.
1) a history of the world in 100 objects by neil macgregor, based on the acclaimed the radio 4 series as it says, accurately, on the cover.
rather late and it probably breaks the twelfth night card and decoration removal rule thereby incurring seven years bad luck or somesuch, but this is my son's fine christmas card...
this is the latest edition of mscsweeney's magazine. for those of you who don't know mcsweeney's - yes, it really is. previously they've produced the magazine as a bundle of newspapers, as short stories individually bound and attached to the spine by magnets, as a z-bound double hardback, as a book with attached cd soundtrack... it contains stories, reportage, scripts, poetry, artwork, comics or some combination thereof. it's the deranged brainchild of dave eggers who still edits the magazine (i think).
there are now many many things to say about wikileaks, most of which have been said cogently and at great length elsewhere. from fidel castro’s unrequited love for barack obama to the astonishingly unprofessional behaviour of assange’s counsel publicly vilifying his client's accusers.
i'm wealthy. obviously. i think of myself as incredibly lucky and i pay all my tax. it seems pretty obvious to me that's what any self-respecting person should do. so i'd be quite happy to see rich people who evade and avoid tax publicly flogged, alongside the wealthy directors of corporations who do the same, particularly at a time when the government is slashing public services. or indeed at any time.
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