I'm going to Paris! For a long weekend in November to do the art galleries. Hooray! So: good modern* novels set in Paris, anyone?
* I have the nineteenth century coming out of my ears at the moment.
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swords and dreams
All books are either dreams or swords/You can cut, or you can drug, with words - Amy Lowell
Me and mine on the internet
Currently reading
- A century of women: the history of women in Britain and the United States in the twentieth century - Sheila Rowbotham
- A history of 20th century fashion - Elizabeth Ewing
- Au bonheur des dames - Émile Zola
- La Princesse de Clèves - Madame de la Fayette
- The aesthetics of resistance - Peter Weiss
- The secret agent - Joseph Conrad
- The women's room - Marilyn French
Already read this year - 2009
- 1 - The foundling - Georgette Heyer
- 2 - Philby: the spy who betrayed a generation - Knightley, Page and Leitch
- 3 - Fathers and sons - Ivan Turgenev
- 4 - Tarabas - Joseph Roth
- 5 - The virgin in the garden - A.S. Byatt
- 6 - Streetfighting years - Tariq Ali
- 7 - Shadows of the pomegranate tree - Tariq Ali
- 8 - Women and children first - Cadogan and Craig
- 9 - The tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
- 10 - Jo Shapcott: her book - Jo Shapcott
- 11 - The book of blood - Vicki Feaver
- 12 - The Thursday kidnapping - Antonia Forest
- 13 - The thuggery affair - Antonia Forest
- 14 - We are now beginning our descent - James Meek
- 15 - The myth of Mars and Venus - Deborah Cameron
- 16 - Still Life - A.S. Byatt
- 17 - L'argent - Émile Zola
- 18 - Russia's path from Gorbachev to Putin - David Kotz
- 19 - Hardcore from the heart - Annie Sprinkle
- 20 - See we have coming to Dover! - Daljit Nagra
The rest of the internet
- Abebooks
- Ben Goldacre's Bad science
- Bibliophil
- Cabbages and Pumpkins
- Camberwell online - blog
- Daniel Barenboim
- Derelict London
- Doonesbury
- Doris Lessing
- Edward Said archive
- Found magazine
- Girl in the green dress
- Good reads
- Guernica magazine
- Gutenberg project
- Jewish Music Institute
- Last.fm
- Leonard Cohen
- Library thing
- London's Royal parks
- Marxists internet archive
- Mslexia magazine
- New Left Review
- Poetry Archive
- Poetry at plagiarist.com
- Poetry Foundation
- Poets.org
- Post Secret - blog
- Poésie française
- So many books
- Stephen Jay Gould archive
- Susan Sontag
- Tariq Ali
- The Camelot project
- Things magazine
- Think denk blog
- Tools are refundable
- Waylaid poetry blog
- Women writers - a zine
- Workspaces - blog
- Znet