The Guardian gave away a supplement called “1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read” today; I missed it, but they’re releasing it online. It appears to be separated out into broad subjects, and so far they’ve got ‘Love’ on the site. From 2006 – 2008 I read on average 24 novels a year; at that rate, it will take me over 41 years to get through the Guardian’s list. Even if I assume I’ve read, let’s say 10% of their choices (having taken English Lit at A-Level and Degree, and having an interest in fiction, this seems realistic), the time only drops to 37 years, six months.
Ingredients
Journalist Alex Watson, technology, books, reading, photography, the Far East, the iPhone, technology’s role in creativity, lots of caffeineMethods of consumption
Greatest Hits…
...Although none of these were ever Number 1s in Azerbaijan, Japan or on college radio.
* On visiting countries that have been the subject of airstrikes by allies of your home country
* Why it's important for The Beatles to make their songs available digitally
* A visit to Peleliu, home of some fascinating WW2 relics and origin of the phrase 'thousand yard stare'
* Five ways to beat writer's block and get words going
* On Holbein and Shakespeare
* Blights on the English language - most hateful words in techFrom which department?
This is the past
