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Lyrical Language with an Irish Lilt
TIME to post a review on the first of my books for the Irish Reading Challenge 2011 run by CarrieK at http://booksandmovies.colvilleblogger.com. I first read The Secret Scripture, by Sebastian Barry last year, when I wrote about it on my other blog, but I read it again earlier this year, when I was studying ‘created…
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Wasted Time Will be Refunded
I was going to blog on novels about Alice Perrers, mistress of Edward III, but there was an article in The New Yorker about The Phantom Tollbooth, which is 50 years old, so as I knew exactly where to lay my hands on my battered old Puffin paperback (putting the novels in alphabetical order was…
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An Irish Reading Challenge
I am taking a break from the book cull (it’s hard work shifting books about) to consider the Irish Reading Challenge 2011 posted by CarrieK at Ireland Reading Challenge on http://booksandmovies.colvilleblogger.com and since a gentle ramble around Ireland is just what’s needed to unwind, I have decided to join in. There are three levels, for two, four…
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Time for a Book Cull
It is, I fear, time for a cull – a book cull. I always feel it’s a kind of sacrilege to get rid of any reading matter, but unfortunately books seem to be taking over the house: without any effort on our part they are multiplying (rather like the Tribbles in Star Trek) and forming…
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Agatha Raisin: A Tenacious Sleuth
Having read MC Beaton’s Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death I forced myself to read another volume from the same series, just to see if it really was that dreadful. And it was. If anything Agatha Raisin and the Witch of Wyckhadden was even worse. In fact I would go so far as to…
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