I both love and hate that this is in my dictionary.

Do I need this? No. Do I want this? Yes. Did I get this? I’m afraid so.

I’d be interested to know if any of my trusted followers can recommend this trilogy?

The left made me buy the right.

Excited to check this encyclopaedic novel out. This is Volume 3 (published first) of a projected five volume book.

I didn’t think I’d ever own this book, but here it is.

Byron's Glowing Filament Reading Vollmann is a great way to remind yourself that your own quiet, personal despair is actually very boring and un-researched compared to the despair of others.

It’s pretty hard to disagree with this list.

I may have gone slightly overboard at the book fair today.

My first ICB; electric so far.

Elizabeth Taylor’s short story “Poor Girl”, in her collection The Blush, is one of the best I’ve read in a long time.

Reshuffling.

I will not stand for this.

Joan Didion on her differing affection for the styles of Hemingway and James.

Hardy dealing daggers.

What poem have you reread the most?

TIL that Norman Mailer invented the word ‘factoid’.

If I were to reread this, I’m likely to be less impressed, but this is the book that got me into reading. For that, I’ll always look fondly at its spine.