Wednesday, 27 December 2023

Christmas Again

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Picture shows a typical dining table scene from previous years. Alcohol and pyrotechnics  As this is my private blog, and my husband will ne...
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Sunday, 3 September 2023

An Uneasy Inheritance My Family and Other Radicals by Polly Toynbee, published June 2023

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I wanted to read the book as I am interested in the author's father, Philip Toynbee and recently tracked down a copy of his book "F...
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Monday, 22 May 2023

The Death of Martin Amis

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 Martin Amis, enfant terrible, described as the literary "Mick Jagger" has died at the age of 73.  A shock - he seems too young (a...
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Tuesday, 16 May 2023

Reflections Inspired by Thomas Hardy

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This picture shows a house in Sturminster Newton, Dorset, where Thomas Hardy lived with his first wife Emma for two year from 1875.  They ha...
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Tuesday, 9 August 2022

To Paradise, by Hanya Yanagihara

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  I've now read this book, by an author  referred to in the previous post, in which I reported on an interview  found in "The New Y...
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Friday, 21 January 2022

The New Yorker, January 17th 2022

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I am a great fan of the public library system, and have written here about my first library book, which I "borrowed" (in fact my m...
Friday, 7 January 2022

The White Ship and In the Midst of Winter

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 Two More Books finished, and still in the first week of the New Year! Awesome progress. This one is  history book, set in the reign of Henr...
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