Title: Cairo: Memoir of a City Transformed by Ahdaf Soueif Publisher: Pantheon Books, New York (2014) The questions that are being settled on the streets of Egypt are of concern to everyone. The paramount one is this: can a people’s revolution that is determinedly democratic, grassroots, inclusive, and peaceable succeed? Cairo erupted during eighteen days between January 25th and February 11th, 2011. It was one … Continue reading A Voltaire for the New Millenium
Whether or not you subscribe to the theory that the digital age is creating an ADD society (there was a great article about this last month in The Guardian) time is at a premium in today’s world and there’s no arguing the attractions of shorter fiction. Earlier this year I ran a series of posts featuring bloggers discussing why they love – or hate … Continue reading Two Short Works of Non-Fiction by Readux Books
…isn’t here! That’s because it’s being featured over at the blog Literary Kicks. So click on the cover art and follow the link. Continue reading My Review of #MoMetaBlues …
If there’s one thing you walk away with after reading Antonia Fraser’s memoir Must You Go, My Life with Harold Pinter, it’s that she and her second husband Harold Pinter were deeply in love. Reading a memoir that doesn’t focus exclusively on tribulations its author has overcome is refreshing. Remarkable, even. Fraser has chosen to share what appears to be the happiest period of her … Continue reading Must You Go, My Life with Harold Pinter by Antonia Fraser (audiobook)
The series 100 Pages was started to highlight those books I’ve put aside after 100 pages – not due to any fault of the author or the quality of the writing, but because ultimately they were not to my taste. 100 Pages is a way to recommend deserving books that I know BookSexy Review readers will be interested in, even when I am not. One … Continue reading 100 Pages: One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina
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