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BEYOND THE AIRING CUPBOARD
Book reviews, poems, general musings and more!
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus
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Star of the Sea – Joseph O’Connor
Here we are in the mid-19th century in the ghastliness of the Irish potato famine. Anyone and everyone would have wanted to escape and some of them are on the ship ‘Star of the Sea’ heading for New York. Ireland is sometimes called the first British colony and the appalling treatment that landowners dealt out […]
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Banned Books
It is surprising and alarming to walk into a bookshop and find a display of banned books. Not what you quite expect. This is what greeted me in my favourite Strand bookshop on Columbus Avenue in New York City a couple of weeks ago. Apparently it was ‘Banned Books Week’ where bookshops (maybe only in […]
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Death
I am the very least confrontational person and I have a abhorrence of physical violence so I find it rather surprising when I look at my bedside table and see the books that are there tbr … to be read. There are two Rebus stories by Ian Rankin, numbers 16 and 17 I think, nearly […]
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