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THE 1ST MARQUESS OF MANLEIGH and 14th Viscount Manleigh of Co. Sussex, and Knight of the Queen's Handbag (Sir Terence Egbert Ethelred Edward George Kitty Carlisle, KQHB (2008)) [The Most Honourable The Marquess of Manleigh, KQHB, Manleigh Hall, Studleigh-Under-Dureth, SX GB46 7BS]; M. cr. 24 July 2008, V. s f 1974, b. 19 Nov 1964, educ. Eton...
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THE 1ST MARQUESS OF MANLEIGH and 14th Viscount Manleigh of Co. Sussex, and Knight of the Queen's Handbag (Sir Terence Egbert Ethelred Edward George Kitty Carlisle, KQHB (2008)) [The Most Honourable The Marquess of Manleigh, KQHB, Manleigh Hall, Studleigh-Under-Dureth, SX GB46 7BS]; M. cr. 24 July 2008, V. s f 1974, b. 19 Nov 1964, educ. Eton and Magdalen Coll Oxford, mem. The Virgin Queen Soc, Oxford, mem. The Vermicelli Club, Sec. PHAGS (Peers and Honourables Acquainted with Gays, Slightly); Pres. Bd of Dirs. and Tstee, The Studleigh Seminary for Boys (Over the Age of Eighteen); Admin. Anglophiles Anonymous, Shelfari.com; mem., The Victorian Pantheon, Shelfari.com; mem. Brilliant Babes (and Dudes) Who Read Selectively, Shelfari.com; Author, The Essential Book of Manleigh Verse, unm. and without issue.
Currently Reading
Cooking with Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Paterson
2009 Reading Log
Assorted "Tales of the Supernatural" from Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural published by the Modern Library:
"The Open Window" by Saki
"Confession" by Algernon Blackwood
"Ancient Sorceries" by Algernon Blackwood
"Mrs. Amsworth" by E. F. Benson
"They" by Rudyard Kipling
"The Return of Imray" by Rudyard Kipling
"How Love Came to Professor Guildea" by Robert Hichens
"The Great God Pan" by Arthur Machen
"The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs
"Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad" by M. R. James
"Casting the Runes" by M. R. James
"Green Tea" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
"The Trial for Murder" by Charles Alliston Collins and Charles Dickens
"The Haunters and the Haunted; or the House and the Brain" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"Caterpillars" by E. F. Benson
Present by Alfred Corn
Dracula by Bram Stoker (in conjunction with my group Anglophiles Anonymous)
Reginald in Russia by Saki (in conjunction with my group Anglophiles Anonymous. Amusing, but not as wonderful as Reginald.)
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Creepy, haunting, painful.)
The Human Stain by Philip Roth (Messy, shrill, flawed and brilliant.)
Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym (in conjunction with my group Anglophiles Anonymous)
Plays, Prose Writings and Poems by Oscar Wilde (A good cross-section, including The Picture of Dorian Gray, some of the more provocative essays, and The Importance of Being Earnest)
The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde by Merlin Holland (The first uncensored transcript of the trial of Oscar Wilde. Riveting.)
My Ten Years in a Quandary by Robert Benchley
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll ('Twas brillig.)
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (In conjunction with my group Anglophiles Anonymous. A compulsively readable Victorian romance.)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (This Pulitzer winning debut novel crackles and pops. Diaz may become a Dominican-American Philip Roth if he keeps on like this.)
The Sitwells: A Family's Biography by John Pearson (If you're the sort of person who knows who the Sitwells were, chances are you'll find something to enjoy here.)
The Hawk in the Rain: Poems by Ted Hughes (Hughes' first book of poems, the best full of savage wonder at the Otherness of Nature.)
Putting on the Ritz by Joe Keenan (A gay romp, lots of fun)
S. by John Updike (A genial, wry, very entertaining satire)
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome (In conjunction with my group Anglophiles Anonymous. A delight.)
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Another tour de force from McEwan. Who else would take a wedding night and turn it into a thing of nail-biting suspense? Engrossing, and ultimately moving.)
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (In conjunction with my group Brilliant Babes [and Dudes] Who Read Selectively. Utterly stupendous.)
Voice of the Poet: James Merrill selected by J. D. McClatchy (Wonderful selection of some of Merrill's greatest lyric poems. Urbane, witty, tinged with sadness, Merrill is endlessly rewarding and entertaining. One of the great 20th century poets.)
Twelfth Night, Or What You Will by William Shakespeare (in conjunction with my group Anglophiles Anonymous. The Bard turns his gimlet eye upon romantic love once again, in this best of the romantic comedies. Even without the presence of a Rosalind (perhaps because she wrote it), both wacky and wise.)
The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare (In conjunction with my group Anglophiles Anonymous. One of the greatest works of literature ever written, an Everest.)
Crossways by William Butler Yeats (Yeats' first book of poems. Nothing in it to touch the heights to come.)
Day by Day by Robert Lowell (Lowell's last book of poems, overcast with the pall of the poet's failing health, faltering powers and imminent death.)
Blue Heaven by Joe Keenan (Delicious, mapcap fun.)
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan (in conjunction with my group Anglophiles Anonymous. Oh, so dark and oh, so funny.)
The Brontës by Juliet Barker (The only Brontë bio you'll ever need.)
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (in conjunction with my group Anglophiles Anonymous. A classic example of style over substance, but what a dazzling style it is.)
The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco (In conjunction with my group Brilliant Babes [and Dudes] Who Read Selectively. Its magic was lost on me, I'm afraid, due to technical difficulties.)
Poems by W. H. Auden (A good cross-section, brimming with gems)
Curtains: Selections from the Drama Criticism and Other Writings by Kenneth Tynan (Catnip to the theatre buff.)
Reginald by Saki (Uproarious, decadent, wickedly funny. "Youth should always suggest innocence, but fail to act on the suggestion.")
Mapp and Lucia by E. F. Benson (In conjunction with my group Anglophiles Anonymous. One of the funniest books ever written.)
Thérèse Raquin by Emile Zola (In conjunction with my group Brilliant Babes [and Dudes] Who Read Selectively. Lurid, steamy, violent, macabre and grotesque, it's not your high school English teacher's 19th century novel.)
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier (In conjunction with my group Anglophiles Anonymous. A marvellously ambiguous psychological mystery and a deft allegory for that perilous state we call "falling in love.")
Lucia in London by E. F. Benson (The indomitable Lucia is a thing of beauty and a joy forever.)
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (Stylish, sinister and suspenseful fun.)
I Married a Communist by Philip Roth (An engrossing look at the McCarthy era and our innate human talent for error and betrayal.)
The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose by Woody Allen (Literate, satirical, surreal, absurd, neurotic, very New York, oh so intellectual but not above the cheapest of laughs -- Woody in his prime.)
Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers (In conjunction with Anglophiles Anonymous. Pure, unadulterated catnip.)
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" by F. Scott Fitzgerald (The most curious thing about this short story is how the writers of the film took this whimsical little light-weight fable and turned it into such a moving, elegaic, breath-taking screenplay.)
April Galleons by John Ashbery (Purposefully meaningless, inert gibberish.)
Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar (in conjuntion with Brilliant Babes and Dudes Who Read Selectively. An exasperating post-modern classic that ultimately earned my admiration.)
Villette by Charlotte Brontë (In conjunction with my group Anglophiles Anonymous. A haunting Victorian psychodrama disguised as a literary romance. Maddening, riveting, shattering.)
In the Presence of the Enemy by Elizabeth George (Effective, suspenseful, but George is a terrible cheat with her clues.)
My Shelf's rating system:
1 star - A blight upon the face of the earth.
2 stars - "Cheese" unqualified.
3 stars - Well worth your attention.
4 stars - Something extra-special.
5 stars - The crème de la crème! « less
Currently Reading
Cooking with Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Paterson
2009 Reading Log
Assorted "Tales of the Supernatural" from Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural published by the Modern Library:
"The Open Window" by Saki
"Confession" by Algernon Blackwood
"Ancient Sorceries" by Algernon Blackwood
"Mrs. Amsworth" by E. F. Benson
"They" by Rudyard Kipling
"The Return of Imray" by Rudyard Kipling
"How Love Came to Professor Guildea" by Robert Hichens
"The Great God Pan" by Arthur Machen
"The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs
"Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad" by M. R. James
"Casting the Runes" by M. R. James
"Green Tea" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
"The Trial for Murder" by Charles Alliston Collins and Charles Dickens
"The Haunters and the Haunted; or the House and the Brain" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"Caterpillars" by E. F. Benson
Present by Alfred Corn
Dracula by Bram Stoker (in conjunction with my group Anglophiles Anonymous)
Reginald in Russia by Saki (in conjunction with my group Anglophiles Anonymous. Amusing, but not as wonderful as Reginald.)
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Creepy, haunting, painful.)
The Human Stain by Philip Roth (Messy, shrill, flawed and brilliant.)
Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym (in conjunction with my group Anglophiles Anonymous)
Plays, Prose Writings and Poems by Oscar Wilde (A good cross-section, including The Picture of Dorian Gray, some of the more provocative essays, and The Importance of Being Earnest)
The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde by Merlin Holland (The first uncensored transcript of the trial of Oscar Wilde. Riveting.)
My Ten Years in a Quandary by Robert Benchley
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll ('Twas brillig.)
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (In conjunction with my group Anglophiles Anonymous. A compulsively readable Victorian romance.)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (This Pulitzer winning debut novel crackles and pops. Diaz may become a Dominican-American Philip Roth if he keeps on like this.)
The Sitwells: A Family's Biography by John Pearson (If you're the sort of person who knows who the Sitwells were, chances are you'll find something to enjoy here.)
The Hawk in the Rain: Poems by Ted Hughes (Hughes' first book of poems, the best full of savage wonder at the Otherness of Nature.)
Putting on the Ritz by Joe Keenan (A gay romp, lots of fun)
S. by John Updike (A genial, wry, very entertaining satire)
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome (In conjunction with my group Anglophiles Anonymous. A delight.)
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Another tour de force from McEwan. Who else would take a wedding night and turn it into a thing of nail-biting suspense? Engrossing, and ultimately moving.)
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (In conjunction with my group Brilliant Babes [and Dudes] Who Read Selectively. Utterly stupendous.)
Voice of the Poet: James Merrill selected by J. D. McClatchy (Wonderful selection of some of Merrill's greatest lyric poems. Urbane, witty, tinged with sadness, Merrill is endlessly rewarding and entertaining. One of the great 20th century poets.)
Twelfth Night, Or What You Will by William Shakespeare (in conjunction with my group Anglophiles Anonymous. The Bard turns his gimlet eye upon romantic love once again, in this best of the romantic comedies. Even without the presence of a Rosalind (perhaps because she wrote it), both wacky and wise.)
The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare (In conjunction with my group Anglophiles Anonymous. One of the greatest works of literature ever written, an Everest.)
Crossways by William Butler Yeats (Yeats' first book of poems. Nothing in it to touch the heights to come.)
Day by Day by Robert Lowell (Lowell's last book of poems, overcast with the pall of the poet's failing health, faltering powers and imminent death.)
Blue Heaven by Joe Keenan (Delicious, mapcap fun.)
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan (in conjunction with my group Anglophiles Anonymous. Oh, so dark and oh, so funny.)
The Brontës by Juliet Barker (The only Brontë bio you'll ever need.)
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (in conjunction with my group Anglophiles Anonymous. A classic example of style over substance, but what a dazzling style it is.)
The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco (In conjunction with my group Brilliant Babes [and Dudes] Who Read Selectively. Its magic was lost on me, I'm afraid, due to technical difficulties.)
Poems by W. H. Auden (A good cross-section, brimming with gems)
Curtains: Selections from the Drama Criticism and Other Writings by Kenneth Tynan (Catnip to the theatre buff.)
Reginald by Saki (Uproarious, decadent, wickedly funny. "Youth should always suggest innocence, but fail to act on the suggestion.")
Mapp and Lucia by E. F. Benson (In conjunction with my group Anglophiles Anonymous. One of the funniest books ever written.)
Thérèse Raquin by Emile Zola (In conjunction with my group Brilliant Babes [and Dudes] Who Read Selectively. Lurid, steamy, violent, macabre and grotesque, it's not your high school English teacher's 19th century novel.)
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier (In conjunction with my group Anglophiles Anonymous. A marvellously ambiguous psychological mystery and a deft allegory for that perilous state we call "falling in love.")
Lucia in London by E. F. Benson (The indomitable Lucia is a thing of beauty and a joy forever.)
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (Stylish, sinister and suspenseful fun.)
I Married a Communist by Philip Roth (An engrossing look at the McCarthy era and our innate human talent for error and betrayal.)
The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose by Woody Allen (Literate, satirical, surreal, absurd, neurotic, very New York, oh so intellectual but not above the cheapest of laughs -- Woody in his prime.)
Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers (In conjunction with Anglophiles Anonymous. Pure, unadulterated catnip.)
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" by F. Scott Fitzgerald (The most curious thing about this short story is how the writers of the film took this whimsical little light-weight fable and turned it into such a moving, elegaic, breath-taking screenplay.)
April Galleons by John Ashbery (Purposefully meaningless, inert gibberish.)
Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar (in conjuntion with Brilliant Babes and Dudes Who Read Selectively. An exasperating post-modern classic that ultimately earned my admiration.)
Villette by Charlotte Brontë (In conjunction with my group Anglophiles Anonymous. A haunting Victorian psychodrama disguised as a literary romance. Maddening, riveting, shattering.)
In the Presence of the Enemy by Elizabeth George (Effective, suspenseful, but George is a terrible cheat with her clues.)
My Shelf's rating system:
1 star - A blight upon the face of the earth.
2 stars - "Cheese" unqualified.
3 stars - Well worth your attention.
4 stars - Something extra-special.
5 stars - The crème de la crème! « less
- Manleigh Hall, SX
- member since September 21 2007
