Paul Jameson
Jul 25, 2017
Of Mice and Men (by John Steinbeck)
I really enjoyed this book. A novel or a novella? At 29,000 words I guess the latter in this day and age. Even my slow and healing brain...
Paul Jameson
Jul 10, 2017
Blind Edits and 'Hop-Frog' by Edgar Allen Poe
I seem to have been editing for an age, but I come close now to being satisfied with a final edit of ’76 and the Odd 93’. I first penned...
Paul Jameson
Jun 12, 2017
On Reading and Du Maurier
Originally written in mid-2016, this is an old post lifted from my old site. I hope you won't mind. It revisits my return to reading...
Paul Jameson
Apr 24, 2017
The Masque of the Red Death
Today I treated myself. No writing. Well, what I mean is no creative writing as yet. There’s still four hours of today left, and after...
Paul Jameson
Feb 6, 2017
The Black Cat - by Edgar Allan Poe
Today I finished reading Poe. In England, teachers only ever teach you about English authors; at least that was what it was like in my...
Paul Jameson
Jan 23, 2017
The 39 Steps - Book Review
The 39 Steps. Surely we all know this one. I loved the movie (the one with Robert Powell) and I've never read the book. So here I am in...
Paul Jameson
Jan 9, 2017
A Tale of Two Books; One Good, One Bad
This week I read two books. Sort of. The first was the small and skinny 'The Embassy of Cambodia' by Zadie Smith and the second the...
Paul Jameson
Dec 26, 2016
'The Long Earth' by Pratchett and Baxter
I really enjoyed this. What's more it the first 'long' novel I've read (other than Du Maurier) in recent years given my battle with the...
Paul Jameson
Dec 16, 2016
'Rule Britannia' by Daphne Du Maurier
I really enjoyed this. Perhaps it was Du Maurier's 1930s voice in a 1970s setting that I loved. The eccentricity of the writing, of Mad...
Paul Jameson
Nov 29, 2016
'Heroes' by Anne Perry
A short story or novelette? Take your pick. My guess in the latter and I really quite enjoyed it. I picked it up in the local library...
