My thoughts about books, writing, life and so many other things….Judy Leigh/ Elena Collins.
Love is a strange thing. We love things which lift our spirits. Spring time makes everything feel better. Or a glass of wine on a Friday night, an unexpected gift or a compliment, a work of art we can see at close range in a gallery, Beckett performed live, a quiet beach at sunset. How …
Continue reading The Tiger Lillies: so beautiful, Brechtian and bad to the bone
U Roy is playing dates in London and Falmouth this year and I have tickets. Live gigs are a thing of beauty: I love mosh pits and dancing until dawn, but a reggae gig is a thing apart. I have been to so many, so often: Misty in Roots, Steel Pulse, John Brown's Body, UB40, Easy …
In the winter, I have a fairly organised regime to write every week day. I am at my desk by nine o'clock; I have a break for exercise at eleven and I run or cycle and do a few weights, a bit of yoga or meditation, and then I work through until about three, when …
Continue reading Kwai-Chang Caine and the daily life of a writer…
I need to review my habit of going to the cinema and buying tickets in Row A. I choose to sit at the front, partly because I am a bit myopic and partly because if I don't sit there, someone with a big head will come and sit directly in front of me. However, Row A and the pre-film …
I recall the excitement last year amongst readers, when people found out Ishiguro had a new book out, his first in ten years. I must admit, I admire his muscled, perfect prose and his ability to lead the reader through a story, revealing just the right amount of information to spur the plot and the intrigue …
That quintessence of dust 