Category Archives: Ottessa Moshfegh

Beautiful Books 32

Posted on August 5, 2023 by wordsandpictures2016

Death in Her Hands – Ottessa Moshfegh ; published by Penguin Press (US) 2020 Beautiful Book 31 was the US version of Sarah Moss’s ‘Ghost Wall’, a version infinitely more beautiful and apt than the lacklustre UK version…and here we … Continue reading →

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Injury Time – Beryl Bainbridge

Posted on March 19, 2023 by wordsandpictures2016

‘Injury Time’ published in 1971, is a novel the like of which no one seems to write anymore – a novel full of sharp characters and swift plotting which rushes and pushes and makes no claim on the reader bar … Continue reading →

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‘LAPVONA’ Ottessa Moshfegh

Posted on September 17, 2022 by wordsandpictures2016

‘Despite her headaches, Ina went into the village regularly to cast spells upon the women that they be blessed with babies, per the priest’s requests. She gave each man who requested it a public massage with fake forsythia oil – … Continue reading →

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june book haul

Posted on July 5, 2022 by wordsandpictures2016

Are we at the start of a new month already? Is the year really half way through? ‘Let’s Do It’ – Bob Stanley. Not tribute to Victoria Wood, Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley pieces together a history of popular music, from … Continue reading →

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on the horizon

Posted on December 16, 2021 by wordsandpictures2016

We’re nearly there, only the tinsel strewn days of the Christmas holiday before we start a whole new year. I’ll certainly be glad to see the back of this tatty old year, a year of malign stress and not a … Continue reading →

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2020 – a year in books

Posted on December 31, 2020 by wordsandpictures2016

To say it’s been a strange year would be putting it mildly. When I think back to January 2020, with all the plans and hopes for the new year, it seems like an eternity ago. Another life, another place of … Continue reading →

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Death in Her Hands – Ottessa Moshfegh

Posted on August 31, 2020 by wordsandpictures2016

Following on from ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation’ comes another treatise on solitude, this time from the angle of 72 year old Vesta, a widow who has recently moved to a new town, spending her days in solitude. One … Continue reading →

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A HUGE August Book Haul, plus holiday reading

Posted on August 9, 2020 by wordsandpictures2016

A Book Haul Finally – charity shops are open again! Hurrah! My first charity purchase in many months is an old classic, a lovely first edition of Derek Jarman’s angry memoir-cum-polemic ‘At Your Own Risk’. (1992). In it he touches … Continue reading →

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Beautiful Books 17

Posted on August 2, 2020 by wordsandpictures2016

Call me fickle, but as you’ve probably guessed from this series of ‘Beautiful Books’ I see books as both objects and texts…which means that sometimes I might just buy a book because of its cover or design, and beautiful book … Continue reading →

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Pant-wetting excitements for 2020

Posted on December 3, 2019 by wordsandpictures2016

A the year draws full circle, I can’t help but look forward to see what pant-wetting excitements we have lined up for next year Ali Smith – Summer Of course, in July we have the final volume of Ali Smith’s ‘seasons’ … Continue reading →

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