This one gets into your head.
Category: 100 untimed books
100 untimed books: the rest is history
‘History is not what you know. It is what you can remember.’
100 untimed books: stars
I’m not using this book this Advent; it felt like time for a rest after two years on the run. Next year I might go back to it.
100 untimed books: swords
100 untimed books: prescriptions for loneliness
Desert Island Discs always sends celebrities off to their desert island with a copy of ‘the Bible’ and ‘Shakespeare’. Scare quotes absolutely intentional. Why? Because they’ll never get around to them otherwise? Perhaps it’s for the company.
100 untimed books: paper
Morning pages notwithstanding, I am persevering with this, one exercise every Sunday. And if you wanted to know what my books look like when I’m in the middle of writing them, well, now you do.
100 untimed books: animals
100 untimed books: criminals
I can never quite decide who is my favourite Golden Age detective novelist, Agatha Christie or Dorothy L. Sayers. Today I’m going with Sayers.
I started with Busman’s Honeymoon. Fortunately, reading things out of order has never bothered me much. Didn’t understand much of it at the time. It didn’t stop me.
Don’t worry, that radiator wasn’t on, and anyway, I took all the books off it as soon as I’d finished taking the photo.
100 untimed books: electronic
The Kobo was a Christmas present last year. I mostly use it for reading: long fanfic; out of copyright books from Project Gutenberg; new books, when it’s looking unlikely that I’ll get to a bookshop in time to read the thing before the next book club meeting; books that in paper format would be too thick or heavy to go in my handbag; things that exist in electronic format only.
If you haven’t come across The Comfortable Courtesan yet, I thoroughly recommend her. She’s the narrator and main character of an early nineteenth century soap opera that’s been going for about eighteen months in our time, and several years in the time of the action. It’s often gentle, occasionally melodramatic, always sex positive, usually funny, sometimes sad, and invariably a welcome interlude in my day.
100 untimed books: foreign
A book by a Hungarian about British culture, and a diagram explaining to English-speaking tourists how to use the Parisian transport system. That ought to do it.
Kathleen Jowitt 