For anyone curious about where to go after Dostoevsky’s shorter works, these are for me the top five Russian novels that matter most. It is part reading list, part invitation to stop circling and dive in. tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2026/04/why-...
For anyone curious about where to go after Dostoevsky’s shorter works, these are for me the top five Russian novels that matter most. It is part reading list, part invitation to stop circling and dive in. tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2026/04/why-...
The Capture makes no sense whatsoever. Plot completely lost. The killings, the Pocahontas cultural appropriation blackmail thread. It’s like the whole plot has been run through correction.
Readers are no longer just consuming book culture. They are shaping it. A new post from Tangled Prose looks at how BookTok, blogs, newsletters, and online communities influence what gets noticed, revived, and remembered. tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...
Readers are no longer just consuming book culture. They are shaping it. A new post from Tangled Prose looks at how BookTok, blogs, newsletters, and online communities influence what gets noticed, revived, and remembered. tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...
Ah the @theguardian.com all things to all people.
“To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed.”
More gold from Gordon 👇
Seven Joan Didion quotes that reveal what made her writing so singular, from her ideas about place and memory to the stories we tell in order to live.
Some Joan Didion quotes get repeated so often they start to float free of the work. But her best lines still carry an entire way of seeing inside them.
tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2026/04/seve...
The Capture on BBC One has really taken a dive with series 3. The AI / Simon says plot has tipped it to total hokum. Such a shame started so well but you know when there is a huge body count they’ve run out of ideas.
Seven Joan Didion quotes that reveal what made her writing so singular, from her ideas about place and memory to the stories we tell in order to live.
Some Joan Didion quotes get repeated so often they start to float free of the work. But her best lines still carry an entire way of seeing inside them.
tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2026/04/seve...
A reflective look at whether readers are returning to serious fiction, literary novels, and books with emotional and intellectual depth in a fast-moving reading culture.
Are readers craving seriousness again? Not solemnity, just fiction with depth, patience, and the sense that something is truly at stake. I’ve been thinking about that through Claire Keegan, Paul Lynch, and Marilynne Robinson. #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2026/04/are-...
Report from The Times on the missing US pilot
Say what you like about Iran’s hardline regime, but Mohammad Bagher
Ghalibaf’s summation of this make it up as you go war, is good. Although @Thetimes can’t work out which type has plane has been lost but is clear it starts with an F.
A reflective look at whether readers are returning to serious fiction, literary novels, and books with emotional and intellectual depth in a fast-moving reading culture.
Are readers craving seriousness again? Not solemnity, just fiction with depth, patience, and the sense that something is truly at stake. I’ve been thinking about that through Claire Keegan, Paul Lynch, and Marilynne Robinson. #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2026/04/are-...
Really enjoying Babies, but the Amanda and Dave relationship is infuriating. She’s clever / smart and Dave is a blithering idiot. It is nonsense, and painful to watch.
Some writers can be recognised within a paragraph. Occasionally, within a line.
A distinctive sentence in fiction is defined by many things, from rhythm to syntax, restraint, and voice. #booksky
tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2026/03/what...
Some writers can be recognised within a paragraph. Occasionally, within a line.
A distinctive sentence in fiction is defined by many things, from rhythm to syntax, restraint, and voice. #booksky
tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2026/03/what...
Some rereads are cosy. Some are sharp. Either way, they tell the truth (or at least a version of it). Here’s why we reread, and what it can reveal about your season. tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...
Some rereads are cosy. Some are sharp. Either way, they tell the truth (or at least a version of it). Here’s why we reread, and what it can reveal about your season. tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...
A conversational look at the disappearing literary middle, why midlist fiction matters, and the books that still prove thoughtful, ambitious novels can find devoted readers.
The disappearing literary middle - the quieter, beautifully written novels that do not always get the attention they deserve - is disappearing, and here's why readers should care.
tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2026/03/ther...
A conversational look at the disappearing literary middle, why midlist fiction matters, and the books that still prove thoughtful, ambitious novels can find devoted readers.
The disappearing literary middle - the quieter, beautifully written novels that do not always get the attention they deserve - is disappearing, and here's why readers should care.
tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2026/03/ther...
The secret history by donna tartt
Why are we reaching backwards in our reading lives right now? BookTok, backlist, and the pleasure of long novels that insist you slow down. Plus a mini list of books that read like trends. #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...
The secret history by donna tartt
Why are we reaching backwards in our reading lives right now? BookTok, backlist, and the pleasure of long novels that insist you slow down. Plus a mini list of books that read like trends. #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...
If you’re in a reading slump, nothing is wrong with you. Sometimes it’s tired brains, overstimulation and too many choices. Here’s your guilt-free reset plan #Books tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2026/03/read...
If you’re in a reading slump, nothing is wrong with you. Sometimes it’s tired brains, overstimulation and too many choices. Here’s your guilt-free reset plan #Books tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2026/03/read...
wrote about the aftermath of finishing something incredible, and what to read next without betrayal. #Books tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...
The cover of the bonfire of the vanities by tom wolfe in a blog post about how places in some novels become characters in their own right.
The setting as a character, and why the places in some novels stay with you tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...
The cover of the bonfire of the vanities by tom wolfe in a blog post about how places in some novels become characters in their own right.
The setting as a character, and why the places in some novels stay with you tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...
It’s definitely worth. I really enjoyed Teddy‘s relationship with his daughter.
Two Kate Atkinson novels, Life After Life and A God in Ruins, rest on a table beneath old photographs, a quiet still life of memory, war, and second chances.
I keep thinking Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life and A God in Ruins should be talked about far more than they are. Not because they’re obscure, but because they’re quietly radical. Time, war, memory, the routes our lives take. #booksky tangledprosewritingthroughit.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...
I loved Life After Life, read it twice, but I found A God in Ruins really got to me.