JacquiWine
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Book lover, film lover, art lover, wine lover. I write about books at JacquiWine's Journal. https://linktr.ee/jacquiwine
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Just a Little Dinner by Cécile Tlili (tr. Katherine Gregor)
Established in 2023, Foundry Editions are still relatively new on the UK publishing scene, but I’ve already noticed their books in several outlets in London, largely due to the striking blue-and-wh…
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New on the blog today, my thoughts on JUST A LITTLE DINNER by Cécile Tlili (tr. Katherine Gregor).
An intriguing chamber piece in which two couples dine together in a Paris apartment. Tensions abound, dynamics shift & life-changing decisions soon follow. 💙📚
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An intriguing chamber piece in which two couples dine together in a Paris apartment. Tensions abound, dynamics shift & life-changing decisions soon follow. 💙📚
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“He chose this woman out of defiance, to prove to himself that his charm could have an effect even through the miasma of shyness that practically stifled her, and, above all, because he knew that his superiority over her would never be put in doubt.” 💙📚
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Just a Little Dinner by Cécile Tlili (tr. Katherine Gregor)
Established in 2023, Foundry Editions are still relatively new on the UK publishing scene, but I’ve already noticed their books in several outlets in London, largely due to the striking blue-and-wh…
jacquiwine.wordpress.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
“He chose this woman out of defiance, to prove to himself that his charm could have an effect even through the miasma of shyness that practically stifled her, and, above all, because he knew that his superiority over her would never be put in doubt.” 💙📚
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Waitrose is running one of its ‘25% off 6+ bottles of wine’ offers at the mo, so here are three keenly priced wines I can recommend. #wine
November 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Waitrose is running one of its ‘25% off 6+ bottles of wine’ offers at the mo, so here are three keenly priced wines I can recommend. #wine
Oh, MIRANDA! This film is such a delight! #FilmSky
There's nothing slippery about a mermaid called...
🧜♀️ MIRANDA (1948) 4:35pm #GlynisJohns #GoogieWithers #GriffithJones #MargaretRutherford #JohnMcCallum #DavidTomlinson British comedy #TPTVsubtitles
🧜♀️ MIRANDA (1948) 4:35pm #GlynisJohns #GoogieWithers #GriffithJones #MargaretRutherford #JohnMcCallum #DavidTomlinson British comedy #TPTVsubtitles
November 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Oh, MIRANDA! This film is such a delight! #FilmSky
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how to draw yourself a pet giraffe - i can't help you with making a life-size model, but if you scale up, and perform certain arcane magical gestures...
November 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
how to draw yourself a pet giraffe - i can't help you with making a life-size model, but if you scale up, and perform certain arcane magical gestures...
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Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.
Patti Smith
Bob Dylan
The Clash
The Cure
Siouxsie and the Banshees
(also saw the Bunnymen, Jacqui... 😉) #MusicSky
Patti Smith
Bob Dylan
The Clash
The Cure
Siouxsie and the Banshees
(also saw the Bunnymen, Jacqui... 😉) #MusicSky
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.
Björk
Massive Attack
The Unthanks
Echo & the Bunnymen
The Cure
#MusicSky
Björk
Massive Attack
The Unthanks
Echo & the Bunnymen
The Cure
#MusicSky
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.
Pulp
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
American Music Club
Super Furry Animals
Chalk
Pulp
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
American Music Club
Super Furry Animals
Chalk
November 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.
Patti Smith
Bob Dylan
The Clash
The Cure
Siouxsie and the Banshees
(also saw the Bunnymen, Jacqui... 😉) #MusicSky
Patti Smith
Bob Dylan
The Clash
The Cure
Siouxsie and the Banshees
(also saw the Bunnymen, Jacqui... 😉) #MusicSky
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For Reverse Shot I reviewed the deeply frustrating Hamnet, a film simultaneously overawed by Shakespeare and totally uninterested in him: reverseshot.org/reviews/entry/3399/hamnet
Hamnet
Hamnet is impeccably tasteful, the interiors exquisitely and naturally lit and the exteriors strikingly framed, but this tastefulness grows wearying, even stultifying.
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November 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
For Reverse Shot I reviewed the deeply frustrating Hamnet, a film simultaneously overawed by Shakespeare and totally uninterested in him: reverseshot.org/reviews/entry/3399/hamnet
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Happy birthday Gloria! In A Lonely Place is one of my all time favourite films, starts off as a standard noir but moves into something far more truthful and disturbing. Celebrate her birthday by watching it today!
November 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Happy birthday Gloria! In A Lonely Place is one of my all time favourite films, starts off as a standard noir but moves into something far more truthful and disturbing. Celebrate her birthday by watching it today!
New nonfiction from Han Kang is coming: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/808114...
Light and Thread by Han Kang: 9798217155033 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
From Nobel Prize winner Han Kang comes her first work of nonfiction published in English—a singular collection of writings including her inspiring Nobel Lecture. In this light-filled and multi-facete...
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November 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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New nonfiction from Han Kang is coming: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/808114...
Light and Thread by Han Kang: 9798217155033 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
From Nobel Prize winner Han Kang comes her first work of nonfiction published in English—a singular collection of writings including her inspiring Nobel Lecture. In this light-filled and multi-facete...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:07 AM
New nonfiction from Han Kang is coming: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/808114...
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Gloria Grahame 👑💖
November 28, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Gloria Grahame 👑💖
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Pierre Bonnard
Petit déjeuner, 1917
Petit déjeuner, 1917
November 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Pierre Bonnard
Petit déjeuner, 1917
Petit déjeuner, 1917
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.
Björk
Massive Attack
The Unthanks
Echo & the Bunnymen
The Cure
#MusicSky
Björk
Massive Attack
The Unthanks
Echo & the Bunnymen
The Cure
#MusicSky
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.
Pulp
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
American Music Club
Super Furry Animals
Chalk
Pulp
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
American Music Club
Super Furry Animals
Chalk
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.
Kris Kristofferson
David Bowie
Live Aid
Leonard Cohen
Patti Smith
Kris Kristofferson
David Bowie
Live Aid
Leonard Cohen
Patti Smith
November 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.
Björk
Massive Attack
The Unthanks
Echo & the Bunnymen
The Cure
#MusicSky
Björk
Massive Attack
The Unthanks
Echo & the Bunnymen
The Cure
#MusicSky
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First watch: Umberto D. (1952, dir. Vittorio de Sica). Eschewing a straightforward narrative about poverty for one about a middle-class pensioner who has fallen into debt, the film was not well received at the time and considered to have marked the beginning of the end for Italian neo-realism. 1/4
November 28, 2025 at 10:16 AM
First watch: Umberto D. (1952, dir. Vittorio de Sica). Eschewing a straightforward narrative about poverty for one about a middle-class pensioner who has fallen into debt, the film was not well received at the time and considered to have marked the beginning of the end for Italian neo-realism. 1/4
From the archive for Alberto Moravia, #BornOnThisDay in 1907, my thoughts on AGOSTINO (tr. Michael F. Moore).
One of my favourite novellas about the loss of innocence. Spare, insightful and beautifully written - a rediscovered gem for #NovNov25 #BOTD 💙📚
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One of my favourite novellas about the loss of innocence. Spare, insightful and beautifully written - a rediscovered gem for #NovNov25 #BOTD 💙📚
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Agostino by Alberto Moravia (tr. Michael F. Moore)
First published in the mid-1940s, Alberto Moravia’s novella, Agostino, is a striking portrayal of young boy’s loss of innocence over the course of a seemingly idyllic summer. Thirteen-year-old Agos…
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November 28, 2025 at 10:52 AM
From the archive for Alberto Moravia, #BornOnThisDay in 1907, my thoughts on AGOSTINO (tr. Michael F. Moore).
One of my favourite novellas about the loss of innocence. Spare, insightful and beautifully written - a rediscovered gem for #NovNov25 #BOTD 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2015/06/09/a...
One of my favourite novellas about the loss of innocence. Spare, insightful and beautifully written - a rediscovered gem for #NovNov25 #BOTD 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2015/06/09/a...
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New on the blog today, my thoughts on JUST A LITTLE DINNER by Cécile Tlili (tr. Katherine Gregor).
An intriguing chamber piece in which two couples dine together in a Paris apartment. Tensions abound, dynamics shift & life-changing decisions soon follow. 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/j...
An intriguing chamber piece in which two couples dine together in a Paris apartment. Tensions abound, dynamics shift & life-changing decisions soon follow. 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/j...
Just a Little Dinner by Cécile Tlili (tr. Katherine Gregor)
Established in 2023, Foundry Editions are still relatively new on the UK publishing scene, but I’ve already noticed their books in several outlets in London, largely due to the striking blue-and-wh…
jacquiwine.wordpress.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:16 AM
New on the blog today, my thoughts on JUST A LITTLE DINNER by Cécile Tlili (tr. Katherine Gregor).
An intriguing chamber piece in which two couples dine together in a Paris apartment. Tensions abound, dynamics shift & life-changing decisions soon follow. 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/j...
An intriguing chamber piece in which two couples dine together in a Paris apartment. Tensions abound, dynamics shift & life-changing decisions soon follow. 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/j...
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Every time I walk past this cafe on Bethnal Green Road I think it embodies all the ways modern London annoys me
November 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Every time I walk past this cafe on Bethnal Green Road I think it embodies all the ways modern London annoys me
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Here’s my contribution to #NovellasInNovember - Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark, 1981, a wonderfully clever story where life imitates art in the literary world 💙📚 #NovNov25 #BookReview #BookSky #audiobook
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/3a9743bc-7c35-4d09-8fca-498307955f20?redirect=true
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/3a9743bc-7c35-4d09-8fca-498307955f20?redirect=true
Review by sarahmatthews - Loitering With Intent
Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
Read on audio
Narrator: Marjorie Anderson
RNIB Talking...
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November 27, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Here’s my contribution to #NovellasInNovember - Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark, 1981, a wonderfully clever story where life imitates art in the literary world 💙📚 #NovNov25 #BookReview #BookSky #audiobook
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/3a9743bc-7c35-4d09-8fca-498307955f20?redirect=true
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/3a9743bc-7c35-4d09-8fca-498307955f20?redirect=true
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November 28, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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2025 reading 🧵
A late candidate for my book of the year, I thought this was just extraordinary. I’ve read the end three times just for the sheer joy of it. Tremendous prose style and great character and story. I was genuinely tempted to start it over to see how she does it. My first Mantel too!
A late candidate for my book of the year, I thought this was just extraordinary. I’ve read the end three times just for the sheer joy of it. Tremendous prose style and great character and story. I was genuinely tempted to start it over to see how she does it. My first Mantel too!
November 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
2025 reading 🧵
A late candidate for my book of the year, I thought this was just extraordinary. I’ve read the end three times just for the sheer joy of it. Tremendous prose style and great character and story. I was genuinely tempted to start it over to see how she does it. My first Mantel too!
A late candidate for my book of the year, I thought this was just extraordinary. I’ve read the end three times just for the sheer joy of it. Tremendous prose style and great character and story. I was genuinely tempted to start it over to see how she does it. My first Mantel too!
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'Cloud study, sunset.' (1821) John Constable’s interest in the changing appearance of the sky dates to hus early as a student. At twenty-two, newly enrolled at the Royal Academy, he described the London sky as being how ‘a pearl must look through a burnt glass.'
November 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
'Cloud study, sunset.' (1821) John Constable’s interest in the changing appearance of the sky dates to hus early as a student. At twenty-two, newly enrolled at the Royal Academy, he described the London sky as being how ‘a pearl must look through a burnt glass.'
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'The staging had to be perfect and the meal delicious, and now it’s time for her to spruce herself up. That’s what Étienne really expects, of course: “Go and have a shower, it’ll do you good” meant “Make yourself presentable, dress up, match the décor.” ' 💙📚
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Just a Little Dinner by Cécile Tlili (tr. Katherine Gregor)
Established in 2023, Foundry Editions are still relatively new on the UK publishing scene, but I’ve already noticed their books in several outlets in London, largely due to the striking blue-and-wh…
jacquiwine.wordpress.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
'The staging had to be perfect and the meal delicious, and now it’s time for her to spruce herself up. That’s what Étienne really expects, of course: “Go and have a shower, it’ll do you good” meant “Make yourself presentable, dress up, match the décor.” ' 💙📚
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Portrait de Mademoiselle Chanel
Marie Laurencin
Marie Laurencin
November 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Portrait de Mademoiselle Chanel
Marie Laurencin
Marie Laurencin
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© Robert Doisneau
Les boules de neige
Pont des arts Paris 1945
Les boules de neige
Pont des arts Paris 1945
November 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
© Robert Doisneau
Les boules de neige
Pont des arts Paris 1945
Les boules de neige
Pont des arts Paris 1945
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On a rather dull & drab late November morning I thought that a bit of sunshine & warmth might be appropriate! This is "St Tropez" by Harold Steggles from 1939 along with his pencil sketch of the view & original archive photograph. Harold & Walter Steggles drove there in 1939!! #HaroldSteggles
November 27, 2025 at 9:41 AM
On a rather dull & drab late November morning I thought that a bit of sunshine & warmth might be appropriate! This is "St Tropez" by Harold Steggles from 1939 along with his pencil sketch of the view & original archive photograph. Harold & Walter Steggles drove there in 1939!! #HaroldSteggles
'The staging had to be perfect and the meal delicious, and now it’s time for her to spruce herself up. That’s what Étienne really expects, of course: “Go and have a shower, it’ll do you good” meant “Make yourself presentable, dress up, match the décor.” ' 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/j...
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/j...
Just a Little Dinner by Cécile Tlili (tr. Katherine Gregor)
Established in 2023, Foundry Editions are still relatively new on the UK publishing scene, but I’ve already noticed their books in several outlets in London, largely due to the striking blue-and-wh…
jacquiwine.wordpress.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
'The staging had to be perfect and the meal delicious, and now it’s time for her to spruce herself up. That’s what Étienne really expects, of course: “Go and have a shower, it’ll do you good” meant “Make yourself presentable, dress up, match the décor.” ' 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/j...
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