Every Tuesday Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea hosts First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros, where you can share the first paragraph, or a few, of a book you are reading or thinking about reading soon. #begorrathon16
Read more "First Chapter, First Paragraph, First Lightship"As with much of Banville, there is fine attention to the feel and smell of things; “the sullen, bitter reek” of whiskey; and he has the gift of fully conjuring people, places and events with a few deft strokes.
Read more "Blinded By The Light. “Ancient Light” by John Banville"He is a master craftsman who writes shimmering prose, but his protagonists are the sorts that you would probably wish to avoid in real life: self-obsessed, self-deluded, duplicitous and amoral men with shameful secrets to hide.
Read more "Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books I’d Give To Readers Who Have Never Read John Banville"Years ago he signed my copy of Mefisto, and I see his distinctive handwriting hasn’t changed. Are there any graphologists out there who would care to decipher his personality from his elegant copperplate?
Read more "Banville in the Borders"From the Willesden Herald
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The Omagh Literary Festival: Honouring Benedict Kiely
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"I wanted to read or hear the narrative of someone else – a woman and a poet – who has gone here and been there." (Eavan Boland 1944-2020) 🚫 #VAWG
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Those Who Say "You Only Live Once" Have Never Read a Book. ~John Hughes
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