James Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

James

@miles_leeson Thanks Miles! All that Iris Murdoch must’ve made me sharper than usual…

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@ianrowbo Thanks for that, Ian - I’m unfamiliar with Charles Webb (The Graduate aside)

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I’m rereading Hilary Mantel’s Beyond Black and it’s just perfect. How do you describe the view from a car window at night and end up with this? How do you romanticise a bloody PYLON?! ѧᗗᗗѧ https://t.co/WfX682MPIt

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I’m in the middle of reading George Michael: A Life by James Gavin, and am absolutely obsessed with George sending an anonymous grant to a Deal or No Deal contestant, and giving £25k to a woman he saw crying in a café 💚 https://t.co/RzO9MvtcBp

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🚨📖🚨📖🚨📖🚨📖🚨 The book I wrote, MURIEL SPARK’S EARLY FICTION: LITERARY SUBVERSION AND EXPERIMENTS WITH FORM, will be published by @EdinburghUP on 31st March! If you’d like to read it, you can! Click here to recommend a copy for your library: https://t.co/T9ac8WcKQp https://t.co/wJGesEOqvd

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I’m reading Jennifer Egan’s The Candy House, and she’s just described how a character’s ‘long deadpan face seemed to shield an illicit excitement, like a generic house containing a meth lab’ 💚

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I’m rereading Muriel Spark’s creepy, death-obsessed Memento Mori, and yet this description of a man DUNKING TOAST IN HIS TEA is somehow the most unsettling thing I’ve encountered so far https://t.co/CpRdPT6HzG

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@elizabethmoya Been out for quite a while, but Ali Smith’s Girl Meets Boy certainly ticks that box

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@veritystuart13 Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez and The Trees by Percival Everett - full weekends devoted to each 📚

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@paulnadal_ (published in 1970, but Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat remains sadly relevant on all counts) https://t.co/dQFuIgEA2f