Monday miscellany

     We haven't had a miscellaneous post for a while, so let's put a few oddments together today:

Books and cakes: The Bridge of San Luis Rey now has its accompanying baked goods - falling apart, like the bridge itself, but very moreish nevertheless.

Books in unsual places: leafing through the catalogue of the mail order company Culture Vulture, I found amid the jewellery, accessories, ornaments and what-have-you, three Bloomsbury Group books including my favourite.

Books and the Booker: judge Tom Sutcliffe talks about reading 140 novels in just a few months for this year's Man Booker Prize.

Books to recommend: Mr. C. has just finished The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal. He couldn't put it down.

Books and Babel: have you ever wondered about what goes on at the Frankfurt Book Fair? Read what an editor writes (I find the remark about the "clarity of purpose and a vivifying sense that all things are possible" heartening).

Comments

[m]

Glad Mr C enjoyed The Hare; it's still my best book of the year!

[Sandy]

Thanks Mr C for the next experience ....

[Danielle]

I don't think I could read 140 books in two years let alone a few months. I take it he might not have a day job? :) Am adding the de Waal book to my wishlist!

[Linda C.]

Mr. C, I, too, enjoyed The Hare. I liked the way the author told about his family's private experience of the history happening around them, and how the collection fit into that.

[jilly]

I have to agree with Mr C - thoroughly enjoyed de Waal's book and his pottery is fantastic too.........