On this week’s Podmentum we talk to Steph Campisi from review site Read in a Single Sitting about reviews and book blogging, and we get to hear the audio debut of Koraly Dimitriadis‘ new poem, Fuck Off. You can find out more about Love and Fuck Poems by Koraly Dimitriadis here.

Writers, writing and Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle

When reading PG Wodehouse’s Love Among the Chickens recently I was struck by the narrator’s…

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Chance, fate and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Einmal ist keinmal.

What happens but once might as well not have happened at all…

The story that…

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In Susan Hill’s A Change for the Better Deirdre Fount finds herself traversing a path that is not the one she intended to venture down. Though she might have stumbled upon it of her own accord, her marathon trek along it is due to a mix of personal…

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Review: Journey from Venice by Ruth Cracknell

Venice is the only place in Italy I’ve been to–unless the countryside scudding along outside the…

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Bookish links 16 Jan: internet vs novelists, siblings in YA, tweeting from the grave & more!

RIASS stuff:

Today I’m over on Maggie Nash’s post talking about heroes and whether size matters.…

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Bookish links 14 Jan: speed reading, book design, crediting creatives & more!

RIASS stuff:

Lisa Stasse’s The Forsaken and my frustrations with dystopian YA Sorry guys, I get a…

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Bookish links 9 Jan: novels vs short stories, classic books challenge, judgy readers & more!

RIASS stuff:

My piece on culling my book collection has been syndicated on BlogHer. Apparently…

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