Showing posts with label kindle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kindle. Show all posts
Wednesday, 14 August 2013

Joe Sacco, Margaret Atwood, Filippe Bologna - & the difference between gulls

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I've had to spend half of the last week in bed so, it was lovely to get to the book festival - literally a hop and a skip from me by t...
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Monday, 5 August 2013

The Parrots by Filippo Bologna

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This made me smile: an extract from The Parrots by Filippo Bologna (Pushkin Press), which I've just started reading on Kindle: “I re...
Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Free ebook and a review!

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Summer give-away by The Friday Project: the ebook version of The State of Me is available as a free download for a limited period ! I was ...
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Friday, 22 February 2013

Dissecting Edinburgh; dissecting nonsense

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I have only done readings very occasionally so am very pleased about this (free!) event in a couple of months' time , part of the ...
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Sunday, 20 January 2013

Who controls the story?

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I've been not particularly well this last week and reading Joseph Anton in bed, it's a long book - 600 pages, which on a Kindle ca...
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Sunday, 16 September 2012

Being grabbed by one sentence

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This spring and summer I've been reading fiction and non-fiction from Pakistan and India. As I've said before,  I feel slightly ...
Thursday, 31 May 2012

100 RPM - stories inspired by music

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100 RPM, a gorgeously designed ebook anthology, is released today, the project of Caroline Smailes,  whose enthusiasm is irrepressible and...
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Thursday, 17 May 2012

Different states

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I've just ordered  paperbacks of The State of Me, and State of Wonder   by Ann Patchett as gifts. I enjoyed both Bel Canto and Truth...
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Wednesday, 25 April 2012

Lipstick turns into green eyeliner

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ME gives me crazy dreams, cinematic, and it's a boring sin to tell your dreams to others - unless they are actually in them - but I...
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Thursday, 19 April 2012

Goodbye, Penguin Book of English Verse!

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This is why Kindles are good: there is no glue. I hate throwing out my uni books, but this was getting ridiculous.
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Tuesday, 17 April 2012

Osamu Dazai, La Vie Murmureé

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Some things just speak to you and you want them straight  away, having discovered they exist. This is how I felt seeing the trailer for La...
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Monday, 16 April 2012

Damp

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Writing on the good and bad of Kindle, Fictionbitch says : My whole life has been wedded to the physicality of books and their shelves, th...
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Saturday, 24 March 2012

'Birth of a book'

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Wonderful: old-fashioned book printing, almost makes you want to throw away your Kindle!
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Thursday, 22 March 2012

Compelling, disturbing, bleakly funny

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There has been much buzz around 99 Reasons Why because of the choice of eleven endings, however, I quickly forgot about this quirk when I ...
Friday, 16 March 2012

99 reasons why I should go back to my Kindle

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I keep almost forgetting I've got a Kindle but on Monday I will be eagerly downloading Caroline Smailes' innovative ebook 99 Reaso...
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Monday, 20 February 2012

Silly billies

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Delighted for Caroline Smailes that her new ebook 99 Reasons Why is creating such a buzz. Having Karachi roots, I was especially chuffed t...
Sunday, 19 February 2012

'E-books can't burn': essay by Tim Parks

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'Only the sequence of the words must remain inviolate. We can change everything about a text but the words themselves and the order the...
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Tuesday, 14 February 2012

Dickens, vitamin D & Prof B

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Probably a jailable offence but I'm not a huge Dickens fan, I still recall having to read Martin Chuzzlewit at uni, it ruined my Easter ...
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Tuesday, 27 December 2011

You've got the sea in your eyes

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Had lovely few Christmas days (and birthday!) with my family. My favourite time, bedtime, bantering with my nephews who I was sharing a room...
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Wednesday, 14 December 2011

The Opposite of Kindle

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Some days ago, I saw an elderly man on the bus reading an old, battered blue hardback - it had no jacket. He was mouthing the words to himse...
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