What a difference a week makes! No more snow here, and Cornwall already feels a lifetime ago. What a lovely weekend we had there, though. And today I’m off to London to watch a couple of plays – I’ve not done a matinee and an evening performance in the same day before, so hopefully it’ll be fab rather than too much of a good thing.
I hope you’re really well, and I’ll warm those February blues with a book, a link, and a blog post…
1.) The link – I love reading about cover design and the creative process – and this New Yorker article provides.
2.) The book – I don’t buy a lot of cookery books (though I have lots for baking), but I sort of need this halloumi cookbook. Man, I love halloumi.
3.) The blog post – Ali is great on Barbara Comyns in her recent review of Mr Fox – it’ll make you want to read it, I guarantee.
What plays are you seeing? Enjoy.
Month one of my ACOB was a success, loved the books I choose and I read 12 in January giving me a bit of a head start so I’m less panicky about reading 100 books in the year.
I saw Home I’m Darling and Leave To Remain :)
Enjoy the plays, that sounds like a lovely weekend.
Well… all on its own, it is pretty tasteless, so a cookbook for it would be a good idea. Thanks!
I would eat it on its own all day!!
Mr. Fox was my first Barbara Comyns novel. I loved it and have since read several more. Trying to spread them out over time since she doesn’t seem to have written an overly large number of books and I’ll be sad when I no longer have any new ones to read. She very quickly became one of my favorite authors.
I’ve been saving A Touch of Mistletoe because I can’t cope with the idea of having read them all!