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About Me
- Jenny Davidson
- I have published four novels and four books of literary criticism; I'm currently at work on a book called FOR THE LOVE OF BROKEN THINGS: MY FATHER, EDWARD GIBBON AND THE RUINS OF ROME. I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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- The competitive society
- Sightings
- On vacation
- Catch-up
- Pearly kings and queens
- All-time bestsellers
- "I have never ended on an unstressed syllable"
- Literary stardom
- Orange Gatorade
- Fleas, flukes and cuckoos
- Wakefulness
- "Because I like to put skies in"
- Adventures in research
- Fur by the yard
- Blue flowers
- Age-banded
- "A 'chunky' human child"
- Fits and starts
- Coding
- Tight spots
- Travelocity
- Swim lit
- Young Wittgenstein
- Rogue agents
- Rules of evidence
- "Top speed 27 mph!"
- Elevenses
- Wittgensteiniana
- "Nothing sounds like feet but feet"
- Running out of 4s
- Snoopology
- Steinbeckiana
- A historiography of empathy?
- "This is great, Ed"
- Dupe wasps
- Light reading round-up
- Athleta Britannicus
- The fury of Achilles
- Bone fone
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- Novelistic
- Ghosts
- Perpetual Motion Food
- The Dynamite
- Heavy water
- Sniper school
- "This tiny thing"
- "The truth was that he wasted time!"
- People reading
- Snug
- 600 letters an hour
- Not somebody's monkey child
- A product that runs through time
- The ticket onto the rollercoaster
- Communing with fish
- Sordid propensities
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- Bookishness
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- It's official
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You definitely do!
ReplyDeleteHi Jenny, if you're looking for good swim lit you simply MUST read "Alex" by New Zealand author Tessa Duder. It's an excellent YA novel about a teenager, Alex Archer, who trains for selection for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome. I read it as a teenager and still remember it fondly. It's excellent, as were the sequels that followed.
ReplyDeleteIt's possibly out of print now, as it was originally published in the early 1990s, but you can find lots of good-condition copies at AbeBooks. I believe the US edition was titled "In Lane Three, Alex Archer." The UK edition was simply "Alex." Highly recommended.
Best wishes
Kate Eltham
http://electricalphabet.wordpress.com
P.S. I simply adored The Explosionist. When can we expect The Snow Queen?