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  • There Will be No More Books…!

    For various reasons I haven’t been online much for the last week, but here I am again, not exactly firing on cylinders, but reasonably bright and raring to go. I am sitting here considering the To Be Read Pile and… Continue reading

  • Bittersweet Tales of WW2

    Good Evening, Mrs Craven, by Mollie Panter-Downes, has to be one of my ‘best reads’ of 2011. Here are 21 short stories set in the Second World War, about the people who didn’t fight, the non-combatants, who kept the home… Continue reading

  • The Green Knight

    This illustration, taken from a Medieval manuscript, is onthe front cover of  an old Penguin edition of Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight. Day Ten, and I’ve travelled back in time to 14th century, and the tale of Sir Gawayne and… Continue reading

  • A Classics Challenge

    My mother always tells me I should finish one thing before starting another, and if I followed her advice I would post my three remaining reviews in the Ireland Reading Challenge being run by CarrieK at http://booksandmovies.colvilleblogger.com before committing to another reading challenge –… Continue reading