tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post2838000245001802944..comments2024-02-10T19:58:20.327+00:00Comments on Stuck in a Book: One place; many SimonsStuckInABookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10017836017530130716noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-5644963596689603112013-05-09T10:44:42.377+01:002013-05-09T10:44:42.377+01:00Oh Simon, I didn't know about your test last y...Oh Simon, I didn't know about your test last year but I'm glad to hear that all is well.<br /><br />I have so many little gardens where I've caught a bit of sunshine while reading such as Gordon Square in Bloomsbury and the Old Kitchen Gardens in Waterlow Park next to Highgate Cemetary and not to mention Regents Park. But you'll be happy to know Mount Street Gardens in Mayfair has a whole row of benches and you can take your pick. Plus it's a lovely garden too.sakurahttp://www.chasingbawa.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-10952187926176721662013-05-01T21:40:06.382+01:002013-05-01T21:40:06.382+01:00Do, Belle, I look forward to it!Do, Belle, I look forward to it!StuckInABookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10017836017530130716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-60272028269829576252013-05-01T21:39:54.407+01:002013-05-01T21:39:54.407+01:00Thank you Iris :)Thank you Iris :)StuckInABookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10017836017530130716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-17910284093407344122013-05-01T21:39:31.215+01:002013-05-01T21:39:31.215+01:00Thank you Chris!
I love the connections between te...Thank you Chris!<br />I love the connections between text, reading, and place - so many people end up thinking about that, don't they? I hope to see you at the next middlebrow conference...StuckInABookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10017836017530130716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-79374611496363381262013-05-01T21:38:44.813+01:002013-05-01T21:38:44.813+01:00What a very lovely story, Kathy! I haven't be...What a very lovely story, Kathy! I haven't been to Worcester College for ages (although I walk past it everyday.) Next time I'm at the lake, I'll think of you.StuckInABookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10017836017530130716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-38276070564964807932013-05-01T21:37:59.900+01:002013-05-01T21:37:59.900+01:00Thank you Liz :)
I love the idea of palimpsests, w...Thank you Liz :)<br />I love the idea of palimpsests, which I think I borrowed from Genette.<br /><br />I generally have quite a poor memory, so I can't separate events for my home village - it has to be somewhere I've only been fewer than a dozen times.StuckInABookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10017836017530130716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-67176420395516760572013-05-01T21:36:32.581+01:002013-05-01T21:36:32.581+01:00Lovely, Claire, I will go and have a look! Anyone...Lovely, Claire, I will go and have a look! Anyone who talks about The Summer Book has won me over already.StuckInABookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10017836017530130716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-29510383902974709422013-05-01T21:36:04.193+01:002013-05-01T21:36:04.193+01:00Ha! Yes, I know what you mean - I always think of ...Ha! Yes, I know what you mean - I always think of that when I pass more exclusive gardens in London.StuckInABookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10017836017530130716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-80030603592198285732013-04-30T22:59:36.998+01:002013-04-30T22:59:36.998+01:00Simon, this post is absolutely beautiful.Simon, this post is absolutely beautiful.Agnieszkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12033810414839540800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-24795685247915490962013-04-30T19:41:55.368+01:002013-04-30T19:41:55.368+01:00Simon, I love this kind of thinking. I will have t...Simon, I love this kind of thinking. I will have to mull your idea over and get back to you!Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04335523622158333456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-24196432604079450542013-04-30T09:12:49.136+01:002013-04-30T09:12:49.136+01:00This is a wonderful post, Simon!This is a wonderful post, Simon!Iris on Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04628900907749700236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-32147056838440677542013-04-29T15:30:36.513+01:002013-04-29T15:30:36.513+01:00What a poignant and utterly thought-provoking post...What a poignant and utterly thought-provoking post, Simon! On the literary side of things, I too am also keenly interested in, and my own thesis has increasingly come to be about, the textual production of place, especially the threat that the books I work on often pose towards the possibility of maintaining any kind of quantifiable distinction between places themselves, and the subjects within those places. On the personal side of things, it is definitely something I will give some thought to in the near future.<br /><br />Take care,<br />Chris<br />Chris Yiannitsaroshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01082840335533682416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-52764935629526424542013-04-29T12:31:22.639+01:002013-04-29T12:31:22.639+01:00Worcester College lake would be the place for me o...Worcester College lake would be the place for me out of so very many in Oxford. It was one beautiful Autumn day with the colours reflecting in the lake when I first realised that bringing a new life into this troubled world was not an act of irresponsibility but one where such sights as these could be shared. Nine months later my son was born and over thirty years on his own love of the world's beauty is shared with mine. I have even been able to pay tribute to the lake and the moment with one of the illustrations in the book that is about to be published 'That Sweet City - Visions of Oxford' Katherine Shockhttp://www.kspaintings.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-25186753545978692992013-04-29T06:25:26.852+01:002013-04-29T06:25:26.852+01:00What a lovely post. And good use of the word "...What a lovely post. And good use of the word "palimpsest", too. Also, I'm glad you're OK, obviously. <br /><br />The whole of Birmingham is a palimpsest for me, as I spent a chunk of time here, went away for eight years, then came back at a very different life stage. I wonder if that's doable in a post ... <br /><br />Liz BLiz Broomfieldhttp://www.librofulltime.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-85428263669542877112013-04-29T00:25:22.284+01:002013-04-29T00:25:22.284+01:00Hi Simon,what a lovely post. My place is a gate to...Hi Simon,what a lovely post. My place is a gate to a field near my home, I pass it regularly when walking with my family and visualise it often - here's my link <br />http://claire-thinking.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/of-summer-book-and-importance-of.html <br />I also talk about The Summer Book here which I see is number one of your fifty must reads!<br /><br />Claire Thinkinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07405745202810426972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-54948440670505605882013-04-29T00:19:36.989+01:002013-04-29T00:19:36.989+01:00Those are lovely gardens. Their association for me...Those are lovely gardens. Their association for me is considerably less emotional or interesting though - every time I walk past it reminds me of the bit in Notting Hill where Julia Roberts goads Hugh Grant into jumping over a gate into a garden and he falls down and says "whoopsadaisy"... Anyway.Rosiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00997880442591920014noreply@blogger.com