Recently finished #AutumnNovel #AliSmith Four out of four stars. Would recommend. Would read again. "It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times." In progress: #APeople'sHistoryOfTheUnitedStates #HowardZinn
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“It was the time of year when things could change their nature. […] And already, my true love said taking my arm, we're past the shortest. Light is shaving the darkness off already, a couple of minutes a day. Have you noticed?”
—from 2008: “Do you call that a Christmas present?” – a short story by Ali Smith
Book launch
Ali Smith: GLYPH
29 Jan, Portobello Bookshop, Edinburgh, & online – ticketed
Ghosts don’t exist.
They don’t. End of.
Story, however.
It is haunting.
Everything tells it.
GLYPH is Ali Smith’s most soulful, playful & vital novel yet, a work of lightness that goes deep to counter the forces currently flattening the modern world. Smith will be in conversation with Jess Orr.
https://www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/ali-smith-glyph
Ali Smith: The book that changed me as a teenager
“Liz Lochhead’s Memo for Spring… I found a book so slim it had no spine, just hinges, and was by a woman who was young, Scottish and a poet (at this point in time a rare combination). The poems in it were so good, gripping and clear, written in a kind of Scottish English I knew was close to my own, but I’d never read in any book”
#Scottish #literature #poetry #20thcentury #womenwriters #LizLochhead #AliSmith
“It is a bold move to be so morally unflinching, especially in the face of a perceived aesthetic orthodoxy that so often privileges distance and irony, but in Glyph we see a major British writer answering the call of the day when so many others have equivocated or turned away.”
—GLYPH by Ali Smith: bearing witness to the war in Gaza
Recently finished #RilkeOnLoveAndOtherDifficulties #JohnJLMood Three out of four stars. Might recommend. Might read again. What caused me to want to read this book was a quote (posted here somewhere, I believe) but as usual, no source given for the quote 😒 In progress: #WinterNovel #AliSmith
Take Four Books: Ali Smith
Available on BBC Sounds.
Ali Smith speaks to Take Four Books about her latest novel, GLYPH. Together with presenter James Crawford, they explore its connections to three other literary works.
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