Tag: winter
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Haphazard by Starlight – Poems for Advent
The Adoration of the Magi, by Andrea Mantegnadd – celebrate Christmas by reading TS Eliot’s ‘Journey of the Being a bit of a magpie, I look at what people write about books, then steal authors and titles for my own use. Sometimes I require instant gratification, which is where the Kindle comes into its own. Or, if…
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A Winter Landscape
The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson is darker than either ‘The Summer Book’ or ‘A Winter Book’ (although ‘The Squirrel’, one of the short stories in the collection, is a little peculiar). But it is every bit as wonderful. With Jansson, little things mean a lot, and her writing is so deceptively simple it’s almost hypnotic,…