After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal by Merlin Holland

Written by Oscar Wilde’s grandson, After Oscar explores the lasting impact of scandal, tracing Wilde’s shifting reputation and cultural legacy over the decades.

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Books 49 & 50 of 2026: Slow Boat to China & Other Stories, by Ng Kim Chew; Hexwood, by Diana Wynne Jones. #yishreads #malaysianliterature #britishliterature

Current Read: The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch. Just finished the long pre history and loved it. Now into the meat of the book. First time reading Murdoch.

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My current read: The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing.

My first Lessing.

I'm 150 pages in and love it. Have this book, this author, fallen out of favor?

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Screenshot of text. It says: Unlike William Golding’s far more simplistic The Lord of the Flies , to which it is sometimes compared, Richard Hughes’s novel resists any attempts to extract from it a moral or sociological lesson, a bit of received wisdom or home truth. It’s hard, in fact, to think of another fiction so blithe in its refusal to throw us the tiniest crumb of solace or consolation, to present a single character who functions as a lodestar of rectitude or beneficence. In the end, everything in this luminous, extraordinary novel is so much the reverse of what we think it should be, or what we would expect, that we are left entirely disoriented—unsure of what anything is, or should be. The effect is disturbing and yet beautiful, fantastic but also frighteningly true to life. Published in 1929, just as history was preparing events that would forever revise the terms in which one could talk about innocence and evil, A High Wind in Jamaica is one of those prescient works of art that seems somehow to have caught (on the breeze, as it were) a warning scent of danger and blood—that is to say, of the future. —FRANCINE PROSE

I read Richard Hughes's novel A High Wind in Jamaica every few years, and just finished reading it again. Many novelists have inimitable voices, Austen, Dickens, Trollope, G. Eliot, etc. but they're consistent from book to book. This novel, though, is […]

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This change of mind has come about for a couple of reasons.

In the first place, reading Gabriele Tergit's "Effingers" reminded me of how satisfying a read a well observed family saga can be. I'm pretty sure that Tergit had read both "Buddenbrooks" and the Galsworthy. Previously I read […]

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Neither Rhyme Nor Reason, Brian Bilston
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Diamine - Fir and Fog
Leuchtturm standard
Kakimori Frost <F> Purple

A chameleon shimmer ink with some chameleon english words (BYO glitter)

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Tonight at Noon, Adrian Henri
Organics studio - Nitrogen
TR 52gsm
Cross <EF> Snake 2025

A heavy sheening ink on good paper can still sheen, even with an EF, and not particularly wet nib. It will sheen less, and also be less smeary.

#poem #adrianhenri #britishliterature #fountainpensandinks

V.S. Pritchett - A story of Don Juan Don Juan, the legendary lover, stays at a lonely widowers house and... Don Juan, also known as Don Giovanni, is a legendary fictional Spanish libertine who devotes his life to seducing women. The original version of the story of Don Juan appears in the 1630 play El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra by Tirso de Molina. The play includes most of the elements found and later adapted in subsequent works, including the setting, the characters, moralistic themes, and the dramatic ending in which Don Juan dines with and is then dragged down to hell by the stone statue of the father he had previously slain.

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A Room With a View, E. M. Forster

A classic Edwardian novel of romance and self-discovery, following a young woman torn between social convention and emotional truth.

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Holidays, Explorations- Molly Holden
Fanyantan Spring and Asura
leuchtturm a5 80gsm
Cross Century II <F> Antelope Canyon

Molly's multiple sclerosis eventually made travel inaccessible. She hides her hurt and longing with a "summer smile".

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Books 1 & 2 of 2026: The Railway Children, by E. Nesbit; Socialist Realism, by Trisha Low. #yishreads #britishliterature #singlit #americanliterature

"Phases of the Moon/Things I Have Done", Ella Frears
Color Bar Ink - No. 88 Blue Angel
Creators Friend grid insert
Diplomat Traveller <M> flame

Its raining and overcast today, so not a hope of a properly lit photo. Instead, lab photo!

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Maria Beltrami's review of Agnes Grey 3/5: Agnes Grey is clearly a debut novel. One can sense the author's anxiety in trying to prevent the reader from identifying her with the protagonist, even though it is known that Anne Brontë had wor...

My thoughts on Agnes Grey, Anne Brontë
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Hardcover copy of Duncton Stone laying on a vintage floral blanket

2025 Reading Challenge: 72/50
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Duncton Stone (The Book of Silence #3) by William Horwood
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HarperCollinsPublishers, 1993
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Finished reading #Ariel by #SylviaPlath

12.18.25 → 12.20.25

I 🧡 Lady Lazarus. One of the best poems ever written.

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Jane Austen, born 250 years ago today on December 16, 1775. English author of six novels that have rarely (if ever) been out of print in the 200+ years since they were first published.
“I was quiet, but I was not blind.”
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Honored to talk about Pat Barker’s Another World for Romancing the Gothic—what an experience!

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Finished reading: #ATaleOfTwoCities
By #CharlesDickens

11.8.25 → 12.5.25

Not my favorite of Dickens. Maybe that’s why it took nearly a month to read

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"Rondeau", Leigh Hunt
J. herbin - Kyanite Du Nepal
TR 52gsm passport
Twsbi eco <Magpie grind> heat

This ink is very well behaved, just a beautiful blue with very slight red sheen and silver shimmer.

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"What If This Road", Sheenagh Pugh
Leonardo Green
Leuchtturm Standard A5
Parker 180

The intent of this nib was you flip it 180 degrees to write on the reverse. It's a bit dry on the reverse, as if out of ink.

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Coming soon.

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Books 155 & 156 of 2025: Finding Chopin, by Rachel Tey; The Homeward Bounders, by Diana Wynne Jones. #yishreads #singlit #britishliterature

Finished reading: #Beowulf by Anonymous

11.5.25 → 11.8.25

Every English speaker in the world should be made to read “Beowulf”

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The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

A timeless tale of beauty, sin, and corruption. Wilde’s only novel shocked Victorian society and became a cornerstone of queer and Gothic literature.

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Barry Pain - Rose Rose Born in Cambridge, Barry Eric Odell Pain was educated at Sedbergh School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He became a prominent contributor to The Granta. He was known as a writer of parody and lightly humorous stories. Rose Rose is a story from 1910, and is about a model who is always late. Until she is late permanently. 

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