Reading

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Guest Post – Ben Blackman on Taking nine months to read one novel

Posted by Isabel Costello ⋅ October 31, 2018 ⋅ 2 Comments

Enter my competition she said, you could win a lunch with me she said. Yet somehow it comes to the fact I (that’s italics too but it’s difficult to tell if you can see) have ended up in charge of the Literary Sofa this week while Isabel pretends to be hard at work on her … Continue reading →

Things I hate about my writing and other people’s

Posted by Isabel Costello ⋅ April 26, 2013 ⋅ 45 Comments

OK, hate is too strong a word, but even blogposts need a good title… I’ve been in hypercritical mode lately and I’m hoping this will get it out of my system. It’s happened before. At university I spent four years overanalysing and pulling to pieces the greats of French and German literature. Parts of this I loved, … Continue reading →