I've just noticed that I have an incredibly weird and varied selection of books on my bed-side table. In fact, they're all in danger of falling off/having water spilt on them/being lost forever behind my bed.
'1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare' by James Shapiro.
'The Line of Beauty' by Alan Hollinghurst.
'The Book of Other People' edited by Zadie Smith.
'The Virago Book of Women Travellers' edited by Mary Morris with Larry O'Connor.
'From Hell' by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
'Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science' by Ronald R. Thomas.
Admittedly, the last one isn't entirely for pleasure. It's for my dissertation (which is about Wilkie Collins and 'The Woman in White'). But it's pretty bloody fascinating all the same.
Two of the books aren't mine, they're on loan from Mat and Patrick.
Three of the books were presents.
And one is a library book.
Also on my bed-side table, entirely unrelated to literature: empty pint glass, multi-vitamins, tissues, lip balm, headphones, and the design from a birthday cake that my wonderful friend Kirsty made for me last year-it was a 'Wicked!' cake, inspired by my slight obsession with that musical. There's a box of paracetemol as well, as I've been battling the UEA plague. And I am TOTALLY WINNING. Sort of.
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Firstly: How odd - I am currently listening to the Wicked soundtrack ...!
ReplyDeleteThat is a pretty varied reading pile, and at least two of them I have floating around begging me to read them. Your dissertation sounds interesting too ... I'm reading The Woman in White for next month's book club .. It's not actually the book set, but The Suspicions of Mr Whicher makes reference to it quite a bit!
It was The Suspicions of Mr Whicher that set me on the case of Wilkie Collins! I had already started reading 'The Woman in White' and then Whicher made me even more interested (especially after Kate Summerscale's talk at Way with Words).
ReplyDeleteWicked might be my favourite musical ever, as it's the only one that I've seen twice. You should have seen my cake! (I'll put a picture up one day. Kirsty's handiwork is too amazing not to have some kind of recognition. I'd say she's the new Nigella. BUT BETTER.)
That looks great! Spacify offers wide range of End Tables .
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