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A couple of follow-ups (follows-up, if you must) to the Lost Man's River review: firstly I alluded to it having taken quite a long time...

Lost Man's River by Peter Matthiessen. We're back in Florida. Not this guy , but instead the south-easternmost state of the USA, da...

All right, let's do a quick whisky post. Wife and one child are away and I've got a quiet evening at home so what better way to cap ...

There's something that's been bothering me for a while, and I think it's probably time to give it an airing here. There's no...

Another example of the slightly counter-productive effect of prissily asterisk-ing out relatively innocuous words from news articles - here...

I tweeted a photo of my bookshelves the other day, after doing the painstaking up-shuffling of everything to incorporate the various books ...

I assume literally everybody had a go at making some sort of bread during the COVID-19 lockdown, right? There was a whole subculture (no pun...

Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban. William G. (not this guy , just to be clear) is a quiet unassuming type of guy; lives alone in a flat in a s...

Following on from my complaints (reasonable I think) about printing and/or binding errors in previous books on this list - Bluesman , Lolita...

A Question Of Upbringing by Anthony Powell. Ah, schooldays. It doesn't take much for one's mind to be cast back there: the endless ...

One thing that struck me while reading Staying On was the whole business of the Smalleys living in a little annexe off a bigger hotel compl...

Just a quick one today - I have no idea what sequence of clicks sent me down the YouTube rabbit-hole that led to some detailed second-by-sec...

Staying On by Paul Scott. It's the early 1970s, pretty nearly a full quarter of a century after Indian independence and the end of col...

I'm pretty sure that the last thing the world needs in January, or really at any time, is some more tips on cooking Christmas dinner, bu...

So here's part 2 of the annual book blogging stats round-up. Part 1 was the barely-there starter, a single quivering cube of beetroot j...

Grass by Sheri S Tepper. It is the distant future, a galaxy far far away , yadda yadda yadda. And is mankind living in some kind of shiny t...