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Their Eyes Were Watching God
There I was, sitting on the floor in the backroom of the Oxfam shop, sorting and pricing books, when I came across a well-thumbed copy of Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston. I’d never come across the… Continue reading
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Underneath the Arches….
This week’s Saturday Snapshot hasn’t moved far from Tamworth Station, because on this day (August 4) in 1839, railway pioneer George Stephenson drove one of his engines across the newly constructed 19 Arches spanning the Anker Valley at Tamworth. Behind… Continue reading
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A Farewell to Maeve Binchy
I am sure thousands of words have already been written in tribute to Irish novelist Maeve Binchy, who died on Monday at the age of 72, but I could not let her death go unmarked, even if other people have… Continue reading
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August Reading
It hardly seems possible that August is here, the shops are already full of ‘Back to School’ displays, and summer will soon be over – though this year it never really seems to have started. Perhaps we’ll get an Indian… Continue reading
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Canadian Reading
My reading list for July included a self-set challenge to read something by a Canadian – other than Margaret Atwood, Guy Gavriel Kay and Lucy M Montgomery – because I know nothing whatsoever about the country or its writers. So… Continue reading
The Book Trunk 