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Monday, April 20, 2026

miami twice

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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...

the last book I read

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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...
Saturday, April 18, 2026

aber bit of this

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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 ...
Monday, April 13, 2026

genre bending

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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...
Sunday, April 12, 2026

all right, Tiger, me old c***

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Another example of the slightly counter-productive effect of prissily asterisk-ing out relatively innocuous words from news articles - here...
Wednesday, March 04, 2026

me my shelf and I

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I tweeted a photo of my bookshelves the other day, after doing the painstaking up-shuffling of everything to incorporate the various books ...
Saturday, February 21, 2026

getting my oats

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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...
Friday, February 20, 2026

the last book I read

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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...
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

problems with the the printing

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Following on from my complaints (reasonable I think) about printing and/or binding errors in previous books on this list - Bluesman , Lolita...
Saturday, February 07, 2026

the last book I read

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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 ...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

waiter, there's some wiener in my schnitzel

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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...
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Monday, January 26, 2026

spacelebrity doggylikey of the day

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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...

the last book I read

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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...
Monday, January 12, 2026

rolled turkey has got me on the run

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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...
Sunday, January 11, 2026

stats the way, uh huh uh huh, I like it

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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...
Saturday, January 10, 2026

the last book I read

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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...
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