Big Gay Read results
May. 11th, 2006 04:52 pmThe BGR website with additional recommendations and readers' suggestions.
Some odd choices and omissions, but what do I know?
The insects are migrating in South Kensington. Butterflies and moths, dragonflies and wasps, locusts and beetles - all motionless for a century or more - have taken wing. Collection of fragile specimens (14 million lepidoptera alone) put together by Sir Hans Sloane, Sir Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin etc, being moved with great care so Natural History Museum can build a new gallery.
The Big Gay Read: 'The list, compiled mainly from recent fiction readily available, includes familiar and less well-known titles'. Emphasis (sigh) mine. Leaves out an awful lot.
And for some reason, haven't seen this in The Guardian, but the news thicks my blood with cold: The new Keeper of the Public Records, an ancient post previously held only by eminent historians or archivists, is a 34-year-old management consultant with a degree in mathematics and politics.