http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/tassy/ (and other stories) en-us 2005-09-08T13:20:47+00:00 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/tassy/archives/014645.shtml You somehow don't expect there to be sky in Leeds. There is so much going on above eye level that the sky seems just an insignificant covering over the top. So when it is actually interesting, it makes the view... Galumphing Tassy 2005-09-08T13:20:47+00:00 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/tassy/archives/006391.shtml Heartsong James Welch For the first time in ages, I chose this book just coz I happened to see its pretty cover on the shelf! Then, reading that James Welch was respected from writing “in the Native American tradition”, I... Books Tassy 2004-12-09T15:39:08+00:00 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/tassy/archives/005153.shtml Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser, Allen Lane, 2001 Oh, its all very disturbing - fries that have a higher beef fat content than hamburgers, the high mortality of fast food restaurant workers, multiple injuries in met processing planes, union blocking,... Books Tassy 2004-10-20T14:38:08+00:00 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/tassy/archives/005152.shtml Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood, Bloomsbury, 2003 Maybe I’m easily scared, but Oryx and Crake terrified me. It wasn’t the alarming vision of a genetically engineered future or the stratified society so much as the aching loneliness that permeates the... Books Tassy 2004-10-20T14:35:31+00:00 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/tassy/archives/004852.shtml The Queen’s Fool Philippa Gregory, HarperCollins 2003 The are two possibilities – either life in Tudor England revolved around royal espionage and the rights of women, or Philippa Gregory is somewhat hung up of these two facets. If I am... Books Tassy 2004-10-08T15:09:11+00:00 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/tassy/archives/004851.shtml God, its being a boring autumn! - i was poised to write about all sorts of adventures across the land and the wonderful thoughts I would have - but somehow we haven't got to go anywhere (though that might have... About Me Tassy 2004-10-08T15:04:56+00:00 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/tassy/archives/004609.shtml Portuguese Irregular Verbs - A Professor Dr von Iglefeld Entertainment Alexander McCall Smith, Polygon, 2003 Welcome to the charming adventures of the inimitable Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Ingelfeld. As a professor of philology, you might not expect the eccentric professor... Books Tassy 2004-09-29T14:00:03+00:00 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/tassy/archives/004513.shtml The Other Boleyn Girl Philippa Gregory, 2001 HarperCollins Anne Boleyn is a well known figure to anyone who was forced to study the Tudors at GCSE. We all know that she seduced Henry VIII, had 6 fingers and was beheaded... Books Tassy 2004-09-23T16:21:16+00:00 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/tassy/archives/004492.shtml Adventures in a TV Nation Michael Moore and Kathleen Glynn. HaperCollins 1998 I only discovered TV Nation at the end of its run on BBC2, and for reasons unknown, there don’t seem to have been any reruns. So it was... Books Tassy 2004-09-22T15:03:46+00:00 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/tassy/archives/004399.shtml What I loved Siri Hustvedt, Sceptre 2003 At first this book didn’t really grab me. The story of Leo, an art historian living in New York, and his relationships with his family and friends, wasn’t entirely boring, but it wasn’t... Books Tassy 2004-09-17T14:47:31+00:00 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/tassy/archives/004142.shtml It was definitely too good to be true! Five whole days off for the August bank holiday, without having to take any of my hard earned holiday days. So we decided to go down south to Oxford, go to a... Tassy 2004-09-01T14:30:30+00:00 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/tassy/archives/004141.shtml Northanger Abbey Jane Austen, 1818 Northanger Abbey, a satire of the gothic novel, has been to me, one of the most enjoyable of Jane Austen’s novels. It tells of “our heroine”, Catherine Morland and her trip away from her humble... Books Tassy 2004-09-01T14:24:15+00:00 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/tassy/archives/004057.shtml I thought that I would go into Leeds this lunch time to pick up some potatoes for supper and maybe try and buy a pair of work shoes (shock, horror!!), and found that Leeds, the most boring city in the... Tassy 2004-08-25T15:09:17+00:00 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/tassy/archives/003980.shtml Hooray for photoshop! I have eventually got around to creating my panorama of Loch Brittle and Coire Lagan in the Cuillins in Skye! Skye panorama... Galumphing Tassy 2004-08-19T13:15:49+00:00 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/tassy/archives/003952.shtml Dune Frank Herbert, 1965 Reading Dune has really reminded me why I don’t like science fiction. It ought not to be the case, I love John Wyndham and Isaac Asimov, but they contribute so much more to a book than... Books Tassy 2004-08-17T13:28:00+00:00