The other day, while trying to find my way out of the labyrinth of a mixed metaphor I’d been torturing, I turned, as one does, to Google to stock up on more paraffin to throw on the fire. A few clicks later and I was reading about Beethoven’s Konversationshefte, or conversation notebooks, which are said […]
I’ve posted another version of this in the mists of time, but I’m such a sucker for lovely type, that I couldn’t stop myself from reposting this now. Also, I just never grow tired of hearing the strains of this call-to-arms through life’s dense fog.
Unravelling Oliver by Liz Nugent My rating: 5 of 5 stars I was hugely impressed by this. Hard to believe it’s a first novel. If you’d asked me before I started whether I thought a novel with ten different first person points of view was a good idea I would have said no. But Liz […]
In January, I decided that 2013 should be my year of thinking about creativity. What inspires it? What drives it? How can we tap in and harness it to enrich our lives? So I was very grateful when the producer Roland Holmes got in touch offering to let me have a Behind the Scenes chat […]
Warning: If you watch this, you will feel a deep need to fly to Dublin to have your portrait taken…
This time last year, I resolved to keep faithful track of what I read, using Goodreads, so that I would be able to look back and reflect on what my reading had been like in the past twelve months. Cutting to the chase, while I did read, I failed on the keeping records part. In […]