A thought on bookshops.
I had a recent visit to The Winding Stair bookshop in Dublin. It was a highly pleasurable experience – which was reassuring, because I had found recent trips to bookshops…
Tag: reading
From Maynooth University Library: “Look Out! They’re Lurking About: Books That Go Bump In The Library”
With Halloween weeks away, here is an entertaining post from the blog of Maynooth University on some appropriately spooky books .
Reading on the bus: a literary bus conductor from Arnold Bax’s Farewell My Youth.
(edit August 30th – (edit 30th August 2018 – (edit 30th August 2018 – for further extracts from Arnold Bax’s “Farewell My Youth”, see here on the forgotten and despised man of…
A brief thought on Borges, Nabokov and growing up
From when I was about 14, I read a massive amount of Jorge Luis Borges. I was a little older when I began to read Vladimir Nabokov, and I became…
Grumpy thoughts on Book Clubs from 2006 in the SAU Blog
Well, perhaps not that grumpy. The link to the “long list” of One Book books is now broken, I’m afraid. I think I am more benign about this idea now – after…
Séamus Sweeney 