Spineless Book Reviews on QlL
19 Apr 2009
The erstwhile contents of Spineless Reviews are now available on QlL: pushing 100 miscellaneous book reviews for your delectation.
Spineless Reviews was always intended as a platform for picking and analysing unusual and interesting items of literature: not just the newest releases, but also books you might find in your local library or secondhand shop; or exclusively online, in esoteric bookshops, on the graphic novel shelves; or even available completely for free as part of Project Gutenberg. They were even serialized for some time in the newsletters of local publishers Reverb, and were hopefully if nothing else an interesting read.
We hope to use QlL as a way to begin publishing such reviews again. In the mean time, if you're new to Spineless Reviews, there's a whole archive to plough your way through. Happy reading, about happy reading.
In with the old!
30 Mar 2009
While I work on new content, I've decided to bring older work into QlL, that for some reason never appeared here at the time. So the more dedicated readers might spot some apparently new bits and pieces appearing that they recognise. It'll tide you over till I pull my finger out, anyway.
QlL on new server
9 Feb 2009
QlL has recently moved to a new server. We've been chasing a few missing images and other broken links, and we think we've got all but a handful of glitches ironed out. Please let us know if you see anything broken.
Shipment of Exercises in Song in the post: some copies left
15 Dec 2008
Today we posted all orders for Exercises in Song 2008. That means that they should all arrive in time for Christmas!
If you're interested in having a free print copy of the twenty-five exercises (plus four bonus ones) then you can still order a copy until Saturday 20 December and it should arrive before Christmas.
QlL announces: Exercises in Song
26 Nov 2008
Imagine singing the same song, ninety-nine different ways. Taking a popular English folk song and rewriting it so that it exemplifies the style "Metaphorically", or so that it resembles an official complaint letter, or so that groups of letters are rearranged by mathematical formula. This is Exercises in Song, and you can order a print copy of selected Exercises now, for free.
The core set of 99 variations are modelled after the seminal 1947 literary masterpiece by Raymond Queneau, Exercices de Style. Whereas Queneau told many variations of the same everyday story, Exercises in Song elaborates upon the eight lines of Show Me The Way To Go Home. Each variation is performable to the melody of the original folk song, and Exercises in Song also includes new variations, not seen in Queaneau's work: from ninety-nine core variations; to nine re-rendering of classics of English literature in the Show Me... format; to three retellings of Queneau's original story in song.
Exercises in Song 2008, the third Pocketful of Lies, is a sample of the best of both the original ninety-nine and the new twelve variations, finishing on December 25 with a special, Christmassy variation.
Sing an Exercise in Song every day during advent. Sing them to your co-workers. Sing them to your children. Sing them in the bath. Just sing them.
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