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BEYOND THE AIRING CUPBOARD
Book reviews, poems, general musings and more!
April, the angel
Of the months
The young love
Of the year.
Vita Sackville – West
Latest Posts
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Bookish – Lucy Mangan
If you have ever used books as an escape or if you have ever put reading above other commitments, then you will find it easy to commune with this author who is writing about how reading shapes our lives. This is a follow up book to ‘Bookworm.’ The idea is the same and it’s fun. […]
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Oxford Literary Festival
The Oxford Literary Festival is a wondrous thing, maybe a little like Hay but no tents, mud or wellies. Instead you find yourself in the beautiful Sheldonian theatre, the Divinity School with its amazing ceiling or various historic halls or churches. 2 events that I fancied were on consecutively so that made for an excellent, […]
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Gilead – Marilynne Robinson
This book had been at the edges of my reading mind for a long time. Eventually I have read it. Gilead is a real place, a mountainous area in Palestine and it is an imagined small town in Iowa, USA. Iowa is in the mid-west. It is a flyover state i.e. tourists fly from the […]
I grew up in freezing cold Kent in the 1950s and early 60s. The airing cupboard was the one place to curl up comfortably and read. The cat sometimes chose to join me. He too knew where it was warm …
Susan Brice