This photo of rooftops in the Guardian is gorgeous. Quite hard to link directly to.
Snow blankets the roofs of the historic old town in North Rhine-Westphalia Photograph: Federico Gambarini/AP
Category Archives: Micro
Read:An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears 📚 ★★★★☆ fascinating historical details, a tale from 4 perspectives none completely reliable, not all likeable. Science, politics and society in restoration England.
Michael Rosen, Lauren Elkin, Christopher Green & Suna Afshan talk diaries & day-to-day life with Ian McMillan.
This was a marvellous episode. Some real laugh out loud moments & others where I got a lump in my throat.
Beautiful song
https://twitter.com/MTImmonsMusic/status/1465374197073514502?s=20
Is this not lovely:
Read: The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner ★★★★★ 📚
Super book, full of small incidents, ageing, illness, deaths & disappointment in a 14th century nunnery. The Black Death, a phoney priest, riot, rape & murder. A really sense of time passing, & quite a few laughs.
Read: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler ★★★★★ 📚
A re-read, from 9 years ago. I love the narrator’s voice, funny & smart. A tricksy telling that worked even though I knew the twist.
But how can I stomach any more
of these storm rains? How can I
slip quietly away to meet my lover,
the wide-armed Ocean, knowing
I’m a poisoned chalice
she must drain, drinking
everything you chuck away…
What the Clyde said, after COP26 by Kathleen Jamie – Scottish Poetry Library
Read: Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead ★★★★★📚
Lighter than The Nickel Boys.I was expecting something akin to Chester Himes but this was gentler, more thoughtful & a more absorbing read. Politics handled lightly. I hope Ray, keeps out of trouble, if not I want to read about it.
Read Painting Time by Maylis de Kerangal ★★★★☆ 📚
An introduction, for me, to a strange artistic world painting trompe-l’œil. Lovely long sentences. The heroine has a ‘lazy’ eye looking two ways at once. The eye recalls Dory Previn – The Holy Man on Malibu Bus Number 3