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BEYOND THE AIRING CUPBOARD
Book reviews, poems, general musings and more!
“If you don’t think, you shouldn’t talk.”
The March Hare says this in Alice in Wonderland.
So many people should take his advice.
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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 […]
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The Tabernacle
I have just spent an evening at the Tabernacle in the depths of Notting Hill. The Tabernacle is a disused church which has been repurposed as a community centre and I was there for a session of 5×15. This is an organisation that gets together 5 interesting people who are given 15 minutes to talk […]
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Book Talk
Daunts bookshop in Marylebone is always a joy but to visit in an evening for a talk by an author just adds to the pleasure. The author was Harriet Walter and she was being interviewed by the historian and biographer Lucy Hughes-Hallett. I often wonder what writers think of their agents and publishers demanding that […]
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