Author Archives: Charles Lambert

Little Monsters: Guardian review

Another review of Little Monsters, this time from The Guardian. It’s the sort of review that’s best described as mixed. Mixed, as in: The parts of the book dealing with Carol’s adolescence are very good indeed, but the more contemporary … Continue reading

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Peace-keeping

Thanks to the FAIL blog for this.

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Labels (part three)

Two more labels: toilet paper: zeffirelli

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Speakers’ corner

I went to get my hair cut today. I tend to put this off, not because I’m fond of longish hair on middle-aged men; on the contrary. But, well, barbers tend to be talkative, in the way that dentists and … Continue reading

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Pure as the driven slush

There’s an interesting post by Mary Jones on the Picador blog, about slush piles (which gives me the opportunity to recycle in my title Tallulah Bankhead’s pitiless analysis of herself). If you read it, don’t miss my comment. Talking about … Continue reading

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Labels: memory (part two)

There’s a limit to the number of labels a post can have. This is part two of the precding post: young people: unsynthesised manifoldplum: maplouise bourgeois: mannersmadonna: librariesmother: received truthnico: moral relativism That’s enough for now…

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Labels: memory

Too many of my labels have been used once and once only. It’s uneconomical, and slightly sad, so I’ve decided to repeat my earlier bonding exercise, in which I take two otherwise isolated labels and unite them. It’s a little … Continue reading

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Adult content

You may have noticed a new widget called Entrecredits appear on the right hand side of this blog, down near the ‘translator’. In my insane desire to increase my readership and eventually dominate the world, I sign up to pretty … Continue reading

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Gianfranco "Uriah Heep" Fini deputy prime minister?

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Umberto Bossi in running for cabinet post

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