The little white attic

Look at this passage from chapter 19:  “I am of a meditative humour, and at sea used often to mount aloft at night, and seating myself on ...

This time on a man-of-war—I’m reading White-Jacket .  The structure is similar to Moby Dick —the book is broken up into lots of short chapt...

The film is about Dogville, a small town of 15 people in the mountains, somewhere in the US. It is hard times and they are living in harsh c...

I’m reading George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss . What motif do I pick up on? Hair.  From chapter 2, Mrs Tulliver talking about Tom:  ...

I saw this book at my university library in Leeds.  What is the point of this nonsense? Is nothing sacred?

Possession , as I seem to see in all reviews, is about possession in different senses of the word—possession, ownership, copyright; items, b...

I’m an Appreciationist . Or at least I try to be. I respected and admired Possession ; it took me nearly half the book to become engrossed ...

I’m getting back to reading literature, with A. S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance .  It has subjects that interest me—Victorian literature, ...

1/ On 27/4, Bird Bitten , together with other BA2 drama films, was screened at Hyde Park Picture House. It was a private screening for crew,...

“For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'”  (John Greenleaf Whittier)  This is the s...