Category Archives: Friday Reads

Friday Reads: In Stitches by Nick Edwards

Posted on September 9, 2011 by joelyblack

I’m on a run of reading “books that evolved from blogs” on my Kindle. Firstly, they’re cheap, and secondly, they’re interesting. Many of them evolved out of HarperCollins’ The Friday Project, and tend to cover people’s real life experiences of … Continue reading →

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Friday Reads: How To Be A Woman, by Caitlin Moran

Posted on July 29, 2011 by joelyblack

I’ve just finished reading How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran and I feel kind of exhausted. It’s that really good kind of exhausted when you’ve done something big and emotional and you haven’t quite decided why this has … Continue reading →

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Emma shows us how to do it

Posted on April 9, 2011 by joelyblack

Last night, I had the pleasure of attending Emma Newman‘s book launch for her first published book of short stories, From Dark Places. Manchester’s Cornerhouse was the location for the launch not just of the book, but a tour around … Continue reading →

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Friday Reads: “Stalin Ate My Homework” by Alexei Sayle

Posted on December 3, 2010 by joelyblack

At last! I waited a month on a reservation list for this book, having seen Alexei Sayle reading from it at The Met in Bury during the Manchester Literature Festival. Having loved what he’d read, I was boiling over with … Continue reading →

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Friday Reads: “We” by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Posted on November 26, 2010 by joelyblack

For weeks and months in my book-reading community, we muttered the word “we” and of the mysterious author Zamyatin without really knowing much about it. It was rumoured to be The Book That Came Before 1984 and Brave New World, … Continue reading →

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Friday Reads: “The Carpet Makers” by Andreas Eschbach

Posted on November 19, 2010 by joelyblack

There are certain rules to writing good fiction. Good characterisation, cause and effect, believable events, the capacity of the reader to follow a coherent plot by developing a relationship with the protagonist… Sometimes, though, if you’re really, really good, you … Continue reading →

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Friday Reads: Mister Roberts and Weeping Women Hotel

Posted on November 12, 2010 by joelyblack

Mister Roberts by Alexei Sayle Weeping Women Hotel by Alexei Sayle I am always suspicious of TV people and entertainment people in general who start writing fiction. Aside from the inevitable jealousy, there’s the thought that they might well have … Continue reading →

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