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BEYOND THE AIRING CUPBOARD
Book reviews, poems, general musings and more!
Henry James said he thought ‘summer afternoon’ were the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Use them well … with books and tea.
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Three Days in June – Anne Tyler
This is a slim volume but the story it contains is large and deep and complicated, maybe as in reality are all family relationships. It is a difficult day for Gail. First she is sacked from her job, or did she choose to walk out? She is not entirely sure. Her ex-husband arrives at her […]
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Reading Lists
When was I last given a reading list I wonder? Very many decades ago I think. This all came to mind after finishing ‘The English Teacher,’ the third book by Lily King that I have recently read. (See readings.) After the acknowledgements and the now fairly common book group questions, there was a list of […]
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Writers and Lovers / Heart the Lover – Lily King
When I’m in bookshops in Manhattan, I’m always surprised at how foreign they feel. There will be shelves and shelves of authors I have never heard of and I realise it is only the classics and the seriously top bestsellers that make it backwards and forwards over the Atlantic. Then, just occasionally I find an […]
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