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Thursday, February 28, 2019

death's what you make it

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It seems like an age ago that David Bowie , Glenn Frey and Prince died in fairly quick succession, although it was in fact just under thre...
Tuesday, February 26, 2019

the last book I read

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Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. The Reverend John Ames is in his mid-seventies and nearing the end of his life (he has some unspecified he...
Thursday, January 31, 2019

the last book I read

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The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima. Noboru is a pretty normal thirteen-year-old boy. Well, it's a difficu...
Friday, January 25, 2019

brought to book

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I'm very conscious that we've done a run of pretty much exclusively book -related posts for a while now, and that this one is no dif...
Monday, January 21, 2019

the last book I read

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The Remains Of The Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. What ho, Jeeves! Hardest game in the world , the old butlering game. Having to be on top of ...
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Tuesday, January 15, 2019

ms kondo, in the library, with the lead piping

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I caught an episode of Open Book on Radio 4 in the car the other day, featuring the lovely Mariella Frostrup and including (at about 7:40 i...
Monday, January 14, 2019

anita get to a hospital

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Just trawling through a couple of book-related end-of-year round-ups and I see that I missed a couple of victims of the ongoing Curse Of E...

the last book I read

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They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell. We're somewhere in Illinois in early 1918. We're also, in the first section of the ...
Monday, January 07, 2019

twas parsecs of time since this blog post did start

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It occurs to me that I didn't do a Christmas-related post in 2018, so in the spirit of this music-related one from 2015 (but at conside...

incidental music spot of the day

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Three in pretty quick succession earlier today which seemed like a blog-worthy thing. And they are: The Funeral by Band Of Horses in the ...
Thursday, January 03, 2019

the last book I read

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Orphans Of The Sky by Robert A Heinlein. Hugh Hoyland and his chums lead a decent enough life: enough to eat, a bit of light-hearted kn...
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Sunday, December 30, 2018

the last book I read

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Earthlight by Arthur C Clarke. It's two hundred or so years in the future and Earth is getting a bit crowded and, in any case, livin...
Friday, December 21, 2018

the last book I read

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A Landing On The Sun by Michael Frayn. Jessel (no, not that one ) is a mid-ranking civil servant in some anonymous government departmen...
Tuesday, December 04, 2018

the last book I read

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The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks. It's all ill wind, as they say, that blows nobody any good. Disasters in foreign countries, v...
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