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Book love

If there’s one regret I have about this modern world I live in is that it’s very hard to find the time to sit down and read. I still do manage to squeeze in a chapter here and there,…

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Rainy Days And Mondays

I know, today’s Tuesday, but I wanted to share this extract I’ve read of a new Karen Carpenter biography by Randy Schmidt. We all know the story and hearing it again doesn’t make it any easier, but this is…

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Words

Yesterday I bought some great books to keep me stimulated during the cold lean nights that loom during January. It seems that charity shops these days only stock ‘chick lit’, Ian Rankin and copies of the Da Vinci Code,…

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Two sorts of plot

This is my reading material at the moment – post-war Paris, rife with murder and mystery on the one hand, then advice about my broccoli and onions on the other……

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Prints charming

My recent creative urges (must be this spring-like weather) have led me to dig out my old lino-cutting stuff. The knives look like they might still be up to the job, but the actual lino tiles themselves pretty much…

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Heroine addict

I’m reading ‘Persuasion‘ by Jane Austen at the moment. I adore Jane Austen. I love reading generally and there’s no one else I can think of who can so transport me away from everything that’s going on around me…

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The big read

I’ve got a pile of books to read this weekend, I may have to set myself up in the garden with a big pitcher of iced lemonade and just try to absorb everything. These two I ordered from the…

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Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

The best book I read whilst on holiday was Case Histories by Kate Atkinson. This isn’t your normal run-of-the-mill private detective whodunit type book. It’s extremely entertaining, but then you realise you’ve been thinking about profound stuff like death…