Another book with lots of real people!

The Grauniad is full of stuff about AHH.Probably best to read the book first before one starts dipping into it all!


I found this article about the Windsors rather interesting.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/nov/13/william-boyd-any-human-heart-murder?INTCMP=SRCH

And here's more!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/oct/28/featuresreviews.guardianreview2?INTCMP=SRCH

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/oct/21/featuresreviews.guardianreview5?INTCMP=SRCH

William it was really something!

With the TV series of Any Human Heart starting there is a lot of fine Boydsiana around.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/nov/21/any-human-heart-william-boyd?INTCMP=SRCH

A slant of journalists

Marvellous letter in the Guardian last week:

The Somerset starlings were amazing, but the caption a little confusing (Eyewitness, 14 February). It's not that "Flocks such as these are known as murmurations", as you had it, but that the collective term for starlings is a murmuration. These terms were compiled in The Book of St Albans, published in 1486. Here you find not only the terms we still use, eg a bevy of beauties and a pride of lions, but those that have fallen out of common use, eg a crash of rhinoceroses and an exaltation of larks. This last gave the title for James Lipton's book on the subject. One of the many terms Lipton coined in his book was "a slant of journalists".
Richard Humm, London

"An exaltation of larks" and "a murmuration of starlings" are, hopefully, memorable. But I don't think I shall forget "a slant of journalists".

What, though, should one call a group of middle-aged gits chattering about literature, politics and the meaning of life?

A gaggle of geezers, perhaps?

No aversion to James

Some thought provoking pieces on the influence of the King James version on the English language. Read Linton Kwesi Johnson's comments on its influence in Jamaica and on reggae music!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/feb/18/king-james-bible-language

Makes me wonder whether I shouldn't hit Kai with some Genesis or Revelations!


Shall we take the Old Testament as our next book????

The lost art of editing

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/feb/11/lost-art-editing-books-publishing?INTCMP=SRCH

Apropos nothing at all, again

Paintings by George Shaw that might make you feel homesick. Or not.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/feb/13/art-george-shaw-in-pictures#/?picture=371660209&index=1

Any human start

Being a lazy couch potato, I may save myself the effort of turning all those pages and just watch the TV series instead.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Any-Human-Heart-DVD-Broadbent/dp/B003RRXUHS/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b

Something that I am sure none of the rest of you would even consider!

Boyd

The choice has been made!

Here's a bit of Willy for you all:

http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=808

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i340H3bx0_U

Everyone's a critic now

The internet is certainly broadening the whole field out! Nowadays an articulate blogger can get themselves a significant audience.



The article is interesting on the US grassroots response to European high-brow culture too.

Big First Issue Competition

A packet of Hobnobs to the first reader who:
1. Guesses where Virginia Woolf is in this photograph.
2. Explains what she is doing in said image.
3. Best expresses, in twenty words or less, the brand experience of munching a delicious Hobnob biscuit.

PJ