Hard to believe it was snowing recently, given how sunny it is as I write this! I’m spending my weekend watching ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ at the cinema, playing board games, and (of course) reading. Hopefully recording another episode of ‘Tea or Books?’ if I manage to finish the enormouslyyyy long book Rachel chose.
I hope you’re having a great weekend – and here’s a book, a link, and a blog post to help you along.
1.) The book – is a reprint of What Not by Rose Macaulay. I’ve had it for years but have yet to read it – must rectify – and now you can get a lovely edition from Handheld Classics. Well, nearly now – it’s coming out at the end of March. (Fun fact: I apparently own more Macaulay books than anybody else on LibraryThing, at 24, though I’ve only read half of those.
2.) The link – British or Irish and want to find out if the NY Times can work out where exactly you’re from? Give it a go!
3.) The blog post – I love Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes – for an interesting and more ambivalent review, check out George’s at Reading 1900-1950.
I LOVED Can You Ever Forgive Me? Really hope you enjoy it too!
I thought it was excellent!
What Not is fab – I’m covering it for Shiny and I thought it was great and ridiculously neglected.
As for that accent thing – I came out as predominantly Newcastle which is a bit odd as I’m from Scotland via the south of England and have only been to Newcastle once. Go figure! ;D
How very odd! It seems to be very accurate for most people, and then there are some curve balls
The quiz got that I was Scottish but completely the wrong cities.
Curious!
The quiz got me – I’m a South London girl with Portsmouth heritage living in Oxfordshire. My mum’s Belfast heritage is not there in my accent at all. Great fun!
It is spookily accurate most of the time!
I really want to see Can you Ever Forgive Me? It’s half term, so maybe this week.
It’s very good!
That was a fun quiz! I took it and it was hard for it not to be right: “You weren’t raised in either Britain or Ireland.” Correct. I think my vocabulary could use significant improvement. Our Pacific Northwest words are quite boring in comparison!
Ha! It knew! I do think it’s interesting that an American publication chose to make this.
What did you think of the film? I saw it recently and enjoyed it
I thought it was brilliant!
Thanks for the link to the dialect quiz. I my case it was scarily accurate – mainly because I call woodlice – cheeselogs, which I thought was a West Country term, but the quiz allocates to my home town in Berkshire.