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Curing the Blues with Henrietta and Homemade Cake
Right, I know it’s only March, but ‘Henrietta’s War, News From The Home Front 1939-1942’, by Joyce Dennys will definitely be on my Books of the Year List. Like The Traveling Parnassus, or Miss Hargreaves, it is charming, delightful, and very, very funny. I read this while I was feeling really sorry for myself, suffering from…
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Library Loot and Date Stamps
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! I’ve been to the library, where the machine chine was not dispensing receipts with the date of return (which I always lose and consequently forget when books are due back), so a real librarian date stamped my books, as in the olden days. Oh joy! Saturday is Library Day so, despite my intention not to…
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A Book Like a Large, Smelly, Red Brick!
Since I am in ‘tidying’ mode, not only do I have a list of Books To Be Read (with sub-lists for categories), I also have a list of Books I’ve Read And Not Written About, as well as a list of Bookish Things To Blog about (including a trip to the Chained Library at Hereford,…
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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 have resolved not to buy, borrow or download any more books until I have completed…
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