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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Do you love The Manic Street Preachers? I do! I lived by their 1996 album ‘Everything Must Go’ and my number one karaoke song for belting out at any given opportunity has to be ‘A Design For Life‘. Well, I now have a…
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…
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,…
Because I now have an action plan for when I am a little old lady – I will solve crime and knit. Poirot has made me more tolerent of men with moustaches. Because her books encouraged me to read…
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……
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…
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…
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…
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…