An online notebook
Read this over the weekend. Here’s my review for Palimpsest. So Now Who Do We Vote For? is a 160 odd page ‘book’ from John Harris, erstwhile editor of the excellent but now sadly defunct indie magazine Select and occasional Newsnight Review-er. It details his discontent with the current Labour government, and asks the question … Keep reading
Got paid today and so a pretty good haul was the order of the day in Waterstone’s: The Master – Colm Toibin The Wind-up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Marakami Love, Sex & Tragedy – Simon Goldhill The Remains of the Day – Kazuro Ishiguro Amsterdam – Ian McEwan So Now Who Do We Vote For? … Keep reading
The Guardian have en extract from Murakami’s latest book, Kafka on the Shore.
As John Self rightly pointed out in an earlier comment, John Sutherland writes well for The Guardian on books, despite being an apparently controversial choice for Chair of the Booker panel this year. Here’s his article in today’s paper. There was a sad news item last week about 130,00 penguins doomed to die because of … Keep reading
Picked up Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood in Ottaker’s for £1 (!) this lunchtime. I was tipped off by HoneyPotts on Palimpsest. The Guardian have a good profile of Murakami here. I’ll quote the whole thing, as it’s a good read and I am bound to want to come back to it later. Haruki Murakami got … Keep reading