Fantastic! It’s always wonderful to suddenly realise a new book is out from an author I’ve enjoyed so much previously!
November 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Fantastic! It’s always wonderful to suddenly realise a new book is out from an author I’ve enjoyed so much previously!
Sounds like a good compromise!
May 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Sounds like a good compromise!
Pretty sure it was invented in Sussex (and maybe some of the Sussex border areas, those places in the north-east).
May 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Pretty sure it was invented in Sussex (and maybe some of the Sussex border areas, those places in the north-east).
I didn’t know that. I guess people aren’t always happy when researchers start disassembling the books in their care…
April 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I didn’t know that. I guess people aren’t always happy when researchers start disassembling the books in their care…
This was a lovely surprise to start the day! (I guess it's answered in the essay, but) how do you think the book got to where it ended up (without being opened much) for all that time?
April 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
This was a lovely surprise to start the day! (I guess it's answered in the essay, but) how do you think the book got to where it ended up (without being opened much) for all that time?
Back in '92 I went hitchhiking through Germany, ending up in Weimar: visiting the Goethe Museum/avoiding the skinheads. If I'd know about Jena then I'd've tried to get a Trabant going that way. But I didn't - it was an unknown -that this exuberant book has corrected. Glad I got there in the end.
April 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Back in '92 I went hitchhiking through Germany, ending up in Weimar: visiting the Goethe Museum/avoiding the skinheads. If I'd know about Jena then I'd've tried to get a Trabant going that way. But I didn't - it was an unknown -that this exuberant book has corrected. Glad I got there in the end.
She rocketed through the narrative like a star illuminating all around her. The other 'S'-prefixed writers were sometimes overlapping in my mind, but Caroline stood out - even if I didn't always understand the context or mores . The tragic/fantastic doomed love of Novalis was new to me too.
April 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM
She rocketed through the narrative like a star illuminating all around her. The other 'S'-prefixed writers were sometimes overlapping in my mind, but Caroline stood out - even if I didn't always understand the context or mores . The tragic/fantastic doomed love of Novalis was new to me too.