Mad Dogs and Mojos…
Crumbs. How do I bring this lot together? Dogs, Marxism and mojos…not to mention David Lodge. In other words, just another typical week of madness on Vulpes.
We are delighted to welcome back, regular guest reviewer Sam Ruddock, who brought us recent Woolf-related pieces: on Mrs Dalloway and The Hours. You can check out Sam’s own blog, Books, Time and Silence here.
Russian expert, Kirsty, is back this week with a multimedia exploration of Citizen Smith. Yeah, we know, it’s not a book, but it’s fun. (And we have Lodge, Hyland and Krauss for you, so what more do you want?) Then Lisa is talking about her mojo at the weekend. What is it all coming to?
*Fiddles with twinset and rattle pearls in distress*.
Have we finally lost it?
You decide.
Monday 29
Jackie looks at the delightful dog book Adventures With Ari by Kathryn Miles.
Tuesday 30
Tuesday is the Glorious Day of Citizen Smith, as Kirsty brings us a mixed media review.
Wednesday 1
Vulpes regular guest reviewer, Sam Ruddock, who brought us recent pieces on Mrs Dalloway and The Hours, finds his notions of originality challenged by Nicole Krauss’ The History of Love.
Thursday 2
Lisa reviews M.J. Hyland’s penetrating novel, This Is How.
Friday 3
Mary explores the healing powers of Therapy by David Lodge.
Saturday 4
Lisa is back with a short article, My reading mojo.
*Thanks to Jameskun for the dramatic image of snarling fluffball above, reproduced under the Creative Commons License.
Incidentally, when searching for “Mad Dog” on Flickr, the first image to come up was this:
Now, am I missing something or does that look like a pretty chilled out serene sort of canine to you? Hmmm. This doggie is much maligned. Still, such a wonderful pic I had to include it anyway so all credit to Foxypar4 on Flickr (Creative Commons License, remember, people!).
The second dog does look like their nap was interrupted. And that is one angry poodle! I don’t think I’ve ever seen one looking quite that unhinged.
Love the pics, Rosy! The poodle’s doing what I like to call the ‘crazy-eye’ but the second dog is definitely maligned. He’s just hanging out at his favourite bit of wall and chillin.
Ah! I geddit! That second pooch is lying out in the midday sun, innit?
Mad dogs and Englishmen …