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"Exorcising his own guilt, no doubt, and uneasiness, he made me a careful articulate pyramid of my shortcomings, which was anything but kind. It said, in short, that, weighed in the balance, I showed up trivial." jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/bro…

"I thought, first, crazily, that I ought to tell him that my mother’s ducks were china and not plaster; that my mother, whose chocolate cake he had not disdained, was my property to criticise, not his." #BookTwitter #booktwt jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/bro…

"My mother’s house appeared to me confiningly neat and ineptly contrived. She went in for that style of interior decoration which ought, given the evidence, to have induced epilepsy in its profusion of optical effect." #BookTwitter #booktwt jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/bro…

For the writer Elizabeth Taylor, #BornOnThisDay in 1912, my thoughts on ANGEL. A magnificent novel that charts Angel's rapid ascendancy as a writer of wildly popular but ludicrous romance novels and her gradual decline into obscurity. Simply superb! jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2024/10/06/ang…

My favourite first-time watches in June. Heavy on Japanese cinema again with some stunners by Naruse, Mizoguchi and Ozu. Also caught a few films at the BFI’s Film on Film fest, which was nice. #FilmTwitter #Films boxd.it/I5lf4

Christopher Priest's final novel, Airside, demonstrating once again he was one of the UK's most interesting writers: 1streading.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/air…

loved this book

"The house, as it presents itself from the road, is like a house one might see on a jigsaw puzzle box, seasonally infested with tall hollyhocks. The kind one put together on a tea tray while recovering from the measles." jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/bro…

"Roger once caught me in the act of looking at my watch and took offence, being an arrogant and insecure young man. I had not yet realised that somebody as beautiful and clever as Roger could be as morbidly riddled with inadequacies as the next man." jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/bro…

New on the blog today, I've written about ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME I by Solvej Balle (tr. Barbara J Haveland). An intriguing, high-concept, metaphysical novel that I didn't quite connect with. #BookTwitter #WomenInTranslation #BookReview jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/07/06/on-…

"Thomas, lying next to me, was no longer my sleeping husband on some indeterminate morning, but my husband moving away, day by day, my not yet lost love, whose look of surprise I was about to meet, because this was no ordinary morning..." #BookTwitter jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/07/06/on-…

"I was no longer Tara, half asleep, nebulously alive and quietly happy, but Tara back in a broken time and yet again I had to explain to Thomas what had happened. I would see his disquiet and hasten to say that he didn’t have to worry..." #booktwt jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/07/06/on-…

Books to Look Out For in August 2025: Part One alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/07/books-… via alifeinbooks

On my blog today, I spend some happy time with a wonderful collection of summer crime short stories from British Library Publishing - Cyanide in the Sun! More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/how…

"How do they live in the same houses, though, those couples who have been halved? How do they go on living the same life year after year? In the same rooms, with the same day-to-day routine. How do they do it?" Monday Blogs #MondayBlogs jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/07/06/on-…

"Do they sit there and suddenly have the idea that they can hear the dead walking about? Are the dead too close or too far away? Do they hear steps in the distance or a hand or sleeve brushing the wallpaper? Do they think there are ghosts in the house?" jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/07/06/on-…