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BEYOND THE AIRING CUPBOARD
Book reviews, poems, general musings and more!
A boat, beneath a sunny sky
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July…
Epilogue to ‘Through the Looking Glass’ – Lewis Carroll
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Unexpected Extras
Whilst I buy many books from Waterstones, Daunts, various indie bookshops and, yes, Amazon, I do also buy from sites like Biblio UK and World of Books. Secondhand; Pre- Loved. And then there are, sometimes, the unexpected extras. I use bookshop bookmarks and postcards to mark my place in a book but the options are […]
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The Ink Black Heart – Robert Galbraith
Strike novel number 6 I have a doorstop, a dog labelled Dora by the gift shop in the grounds of Alnwick Castle in Northumberland. This particular book would do just as good a job as said dog. Oh my goodness, 1221 pages and as I do most of my reading lying in bed with my […]
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Truth
I enjoyed Tracy Chevalier’s ‘The Last Runaway’ and so when I came across a book about the underground railway I wanted to read it. The underground railway was of course neither of those things. Instead it was a system of safe houses that enabled escaping slaves to move from confederate southern states in the USA […]
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