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   akfarrar's Blogs in July 2008
Golf Grip
-  Or the Oldest Member Clubs P. G Wodehouse’s ‘The Heart of a Goof’ is superficially about golf – and you might need to check-out a couple of key words and phrases, not least mashie-niblick, in order to savour to the full all the delights contained......Read More
Posted on: 2008-07-05 03:49:23 |  Rating: | Views: 42 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Books  PG Wodehouse  Golf 
Stolen Fire
A lesson in not responding soon enough to blog ideas - a politician will come along and steal your fire! Johnson - odd looking Mayor of London - has connected a connection which is obvious to make. The Gruniad reports on his appearance before a House of Commons committee on Knife crime and he......Read More
Posted on: 2008-07-17 01:38:47 |  Rating: | Views: 18 | Comments: 1 | Tags: London  Shakespeare  Romeo and Juliet  Knife Crime 
Classic Flop?
I first read the thing back in the summer 1975 (I can be sure of the date because it was part of my University set reading – I was going ‘up’ to Leicester to study for a B.Sc. and some ‘wit’ had included this on the list of ‘books to study before coming’......Read More
Posted on: 2008-07-18 05:38:41 |  Rating: | Views: 14 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Kingsley Amis  Lucky Jim  Book Review 
Nobel Aspirations!
There was talk, when Ian McEwan’s ‘On Chesil Beach’ was up for The Booker Prize, of its shortness: The implication is of a slight story, of a lack of depth – of ‘all very well, but …’. I take it the people talking in that way either use a......Read More
Posted on: 2008-07-20 02:06:06 |  Rating: | Views: 20 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Book Review  Ian McEwan  Booker Prize  Nobel Prize 
The Animated Shrew
I like ‘Shakespeare: The Animated Tales’ as a concept and, of the ones I’ve seen so far, (most of the time) in execution: The texts, superbly sliced by Leon Garfield, abridgements rather than rewrites; the animations various in style, all of the highest quality, filmed in the......Read More
Posted on: 2008-07-22 07:22:15 |  Rating: | Views: 19 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Shakespeare  Taming of the Shrew  Animation 

                 
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