Hints and tips:
...Writers and publishers love them (especially, of course, if their books are featured)....
...(I’ve been enjoying Sir Roy Strong’s book Garden Party recently, and he has a lot to say on the subject.) I long for a bit of water in our garden at home in the country....
...She discovered that Charlotte Brontë was in love with her husband after finding a few of the novelist’s letters to him torn up in the bin....
...How do readers find the books they love?...
...myself, this is love”....
...I speed-read often, a hazard of the profession — but with books I love, or which strike some nerve or chord, I almost always go back over a period of days or months....
...“It’s kind of ironic that the whole thing was a huge satire on entitlement, and yet people love Logan Roy,” he says, grinning. “And you go, ‘He’s not particularly loveable....
...“I love public service. I can see myself continuing in public service in some way. But I really do not know what that is at this point,” he said....
..., January 27), your columnist Emma Jacobs might want to rethink the term “sad mum lit” when referencing works by Ashley Audrain, Julia Fine, Sheila Heti, Lara Feigel, Rachel Cusk and Claire Kilroy...
...As a young reader, I was hopelessly in love with books, dreaming of writing my own some day — not for fame, but for fun....
...But it also touches on unexpected connections and the strangeness of love, and the faint possibility of hope that can be found in old songs or books, in art or conversations with strangers....
...Revolution and a fierce love of her homeland ran in her blood, along with the dancing genes....
...“A Gospel” finds him crooning about love and vulnerability over a subtle shimmer of pizzicato strings and piano....
...Everything he stands for, I love.”...
...But over time, I’ve begun to love reading while roaming — finding a quiet spot in the middle of the Frankfurt Book Fair bustle, in New York’s Central Park or on Mumbai’s Marine Drive as runners and chaat-eating...
...Trump still says, ‘Where’s my Roy Cohn?’” What happens if Trump gets in again? “An absolute collapse of the rule of law,” says Kruger....
...Nilanjana Roy is an FT Weekend columnist Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Rather than algorithms, there is nothing more powerful than a reader who truly loves a book, writes Nilanjana Roy....
...If Odell points to the coronavirus pandemic as a turning point, a moment when the slow, fluid pauses of pandemic time made us doubt the tyranny of the clock, Struthers, for all her love of watches, reminds...
...Black River by Nilanjana Roy (Pushkin Press)A work of literary fiction with a granular, compassionate outlook by the Delhi-based FT columnist....
...Accordingly we move from sporting legends to Sporty Spice, from the bruising midfield enforcer Roy Keane to Anna Wintour....
...Britain’s Peter James’s Stop Them Dead (Macmillan, £22) is the 19th entry in his formidable Roy Grace series; here, the Brighton-based detective is up against brutal black-market gangs....
...If there is such a trade association as the Blouson Promotion Bureau, then it should erect a statue to Kendall Roy (played by Jeremy Strong) as he sported a seemingly limitless selection of blousons....
...It is the emotional pull of the work by the man whom Peattie loved, and still loves, that continues to draw him back in....
...It is hardly accurate to say I love her work — reading it is like stepping under an icy waterfall: you emerge scoured, braced, breathless, yet ready for more. But Ugrešić can by drily humorous, too....
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