Reading
My literature reading list is more 'Great Books' style literature. This is more general stories, reading, and book-type stuff.
Upcoming ideas of reading lists / pairings and such:
- 1984 / Julia
- a few biographies of wives of famous men. Hardy, Joyce, Tolstoy, Orwell
Reading and book-type posts on the blog:
- The miracle of our simultaneous existence 28th January 2026 about the quote from Barbara Ehrenreich's Dancing in the Streets
- 1910: Human nature changed 26th January 2026 just a little bit of Woolf
- Book adaptations 20th January 2026
- 1922: Year Zero on Modernist literature 19th January 2026
- Romanticism roundup 15th January 2026
- The life and afterlife of Gertrude Stein 29th December 2025
- Ideas about realism in dialogue 15th December 2025
- Favourite kids books that are just great books 3rd December 2025
- Just invent new genres why don't you 1st December 2025
- Before I go to see Wicked 20th November 2025 mostly about the book not the film/musical
- A bit of narrative energy, please 5th November 2025
- Authors I'll read just because 21st October 2025
- Journey to the Centre of the Earth 20th October 2025
- Making a movement 19th October 2025 and the scenes page, a lot about literary groups / movements / scenes
- Not buying a secondhand bookshop 14th October 2025
- How ebooks should work 13th October 2025
- The Great Wishlist Purge 7th October 2025 about my To Be Read piles
- Quotes about writing 2nd October 2025
- Tropes to make my brain happy 23rd September 2025
- Three monster stories 22nd September 2025
- Victorian etiquette manuals 10th September 2025
- Novella appreciation 24th August 2025
- Fiction versus biography 30th July 2025
- Propertarianism 9th July 2025 a bit about Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed
- What I like to see in stories 8th July 2025
- Cosy conflict 2nd July 2025
- Ladies chasing monsters, being chased by monsters 1st July 2025
- More cosy debates 26th June 2025
- Tenses, perspectives, points-of-view! 19th June 2025 about After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz
- Why I love present tense 29th May 2025
- Cosy existential dread 22nd May 2025
- Making a defence of fanfiction 21st May 2025
- Figuring out a literature curriculum 19th May 2025
- Lolly Willowes 29th April 2025
- Conversations with a seven-year-old about stories. Also, tropes 24th April 2025
- Cartography books 4th March 2025
- Predictable problems with reading 1930s pulp fiction 26th February 2025
- Putting together a Brontë reading list 13th February 2025
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