One of the Foxes got a wee bit – well – argumentative this week up in Edinburgh. She says she was just making her points enthusiastically – but it probably depended a bit where you were sitting at the time. Anyway, you can read all about it on Saturday. Before then we revisit a classic VL feature piece, take in some Wodehouse and a new type of art book and consider patriotism and bicycles – but not necessarily in that order …
Monday: Jackie takes an in-depth look at Cassatt by Nathalia Brodskaia, a new kind of art book.
Tuesday: As a fan of bicycles herself, Nikki could not resist Monique Roffey’s compelling The White Woman on a Green Bicycle.
Wednesday: As a lead-in to Rosy’s report on the Great Blogging Debate (see Saturday) we thought we’d rerun one of our most popular ever pieces, which considers much the same question: Fox in the City.
Thursday: Anne comes over all foppish and charming as she indulges in a spot of P.G. Wodehouse’s The Girl in Blue.
Friday: Nikki is back again and this time fascinated by the nature of patriotism in The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies.
Saturday: Hopefully Rosy will be telling us a bit about the blogging event at Edinburgh libraries where she and Eve discussed the difference between online and newspaper reviews and how blogging is changing the literary scene with Scotland on Sunday’s Literary Editor, Stuart Kelly. (Or if not, will be able to tell us who will.)
(Red Fox photo by Insight Imaging: John A Ryan Photography on Flickr, reproduced under a Creative Commons Licence.)
That photographer was really lucky to snap the middle of a yawn. That would be tough to do with a human, never mind wildlife.