Monthly Archive for: ‘December, 2020’

Summer time is reading time (my top 15)
By MLJ
on December 23, 2020

Summer time is reading time (my top 15)

Stuck for what to read on your Summer break? Browse my top 15 Summer of 2020 reading suggestions to pin it down. This is Happiness by Niall Williams – What a novel! It plaits warmth and wisdom with depth and humour. “Father Coffey, the curate … pale and thin as a Communion wafer.” Laugh and

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Poems caught me ‘like a prisoner of soft words’
By MLJ
on December 7, 2020

Poems caught me ‘like a prisoner of soft words’

This was a year in which poetry really had to do its fine work – and it did. These are the poems that most soothed and stirred me most in the latter half of 2020. ‘Short talk on the Mona Lisa’ by Anne Carson Every day he poured his question into her, as / you

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