On a light,hairy note

Looking at the two photos of Margaret Drabble

I confess the difference surprise me.But I know that feeling at midlife that you are too busy to have long hair… yet it softens the features… so my hairdresser says…mine is short now..but I dream it is long again and feel happy

Is the short hair and plain look part of wishing to be taken seriously?She certainly has been married to two very interesting men

Long Hair Over 40: Is it Age-Appropriate? (thebudgetfashionista.com)
The Pure Gold Baby by Margaret Drabble – review (theguardian.com)
Weekend Inspiration // Short Hair (Don’t Care) (top-coat-blog.com)
Margaret Drabble: ‘At parties, after a few drinks, I start asking people to supper, which I always regret’ (theguardian.com)
Decisions, decisions… (violetannie.com)
Why I decided to let myself go grey – aged 27 (thriftlane.wordpress.com)
Rebecca Romijn Shows Off New Bob Haircut at Baby2Baby Gala (webpronews.com)
“Excuse me, where do you get your hair cut?” I track down some stylish shoppers in Northampton and ask them for some hairdresser recommendations!! (sarahbecker10.wordpress.com)
Unity of Effect (novelsofmssimpson.com)

I am really surprised /pleased about the number of people reading here

Margaret Drabble when young

When I moved from books to Philosophy I was not expecting a lot of readers but I have had far more than I thought and so I have continued again after I thought I’d stop.So as I have thought before,people do like serious reading and thinking about thinking.

I shall try to put on more about books too.I am reading the latest Margaret Drabble this week,The pure gold baby.It seems very light reading after Heidegger and co.Which is nice..

I would like to discover an introduction to modern literary crticism as i find it hard to get into.I am unsure if it needs to be so difficult….

The Pure Gold Baby by Margaret Drabble – review (theguardian.com)
Margaret Drabble: ‘At parties, after a few drinks, I start asking people to supper, which I always regret’ (theguardian.com)
Margaret Drabble: Unless you’re Hilary Mantel you don’t have a chance (telegraph.co.uk)
Thinking about what is called thinking [Heidegger] (complexnumberblog.wordpress.com)
Margaret Drabble: In our head we switch tenses all the time (metro.co.uk)
ANYTHING is Possible (makeitallbelle1.wordpress.com)
Sunday Lit Crit Sermon #77: Orson F. Whitney on poetry and religion (motleyvision.org)
Lit Crit: Vile Bodies (paulgapper.wordpress.com)
Reading and the Reader by Philip Davis – review (theguardian.com)
And now for something completely different: Baudrillard, Disneyland, and Capitalist Ideology (rbday.wordpress.com)

English Literature: Death of the Author

Wordle: loci similes (Photo credit: filologanoga)

literary criticism of john ruskin (Photo credit: cdrummbks)

TCLC - Twentieth Century Literary Criticism — TCLC – Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (Photo credit: CCAC North Library)

English Literature: Death of the Author.

Borges’s Plot Summaries: Jorge Luis Borges’s Course on English Literature (lareviewofbooks.org)
Calling all Writers (blaken555.wordpress.com)
Literature and Liberty: Essays in Libertarian Literary Criticism (allenmendenhallblog.com)
My hero: CS Lewish by Laura Miller and Aldous Huxley by Nicholas Murray (theguardian.com)
Prescription vs. Description: Teaching and Delighting (tobiasmastgrave.wordpress.com)
Caxton’s First Printed Book In English (artlark.org)
The Guidance to Literary Criticism (Part-01) (studyel.wordpress.com)
CS Lewis’s literary legacy: ‘dodgy and unpleasant’ or ‘exceptionally good’? (theguardian.com)
What women wrote: the forgotten voices of World War I (thebrightoldoak.wordpress.com)

The Flying goose.

A wonderful artist

My Life as an Artist (2)

I leave you this weekend with a flying goose.

From the book, ‘The Apple Exercise’

‘Given the fast pace of our lives today, and the fact that so many of us are plugged into technology of one kind or another, our collective sense are being deadened.

Along with this comes a feeling of loss. A loss that in many ways we are unable to identify.

As we constantly try to fill the ever widening holes within us, with more and more frenetic activity and stuff, our frustration levels grow even more.

Feeding our sense through the creative process, in all its many forms, can produce almost miraculous changes, which lead to a sense of well being and fulfilment.’

Next week, more tutorials and information about watercolour brushes and paper.

Wishing everyone a beautiful and creative weekend.

A Bientôt

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Private blog?

I am probably going to make my blog private.You will be able to read it if you fill in your WP name when requested,If you do that I’ll get an email and will let you through.I have too many followers and people I follow…’ll go through blogs I follow and maybe choose fewer then I shall open this blog to the public again.

Thanks to all those who read my work and those I read