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BEYOND THE AIRING CUPBOARD
Book reviews, poems, general musings and more!
The end of summer is not the end of the world.
Here’s to October.
A.A Milne
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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 […]
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Chapters
Do you like chapters I wonder? Is it something that concerns you in the book you’re reading? I dislike long chapters and I am thrown into disarray if my book has no chapters at all. Horror of horrors! Fortunately it does not happen often. When I try and think about this I find it tricky. […]
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The Vault – Ruth Rendell
I picked this up from my bookshelves as a gentle remedy to struggling with Graham Greene’s existential questionings in ‘The end of the affair.’ It proved to be a very good choice. I haven’t read Ruth Rendell for a long time and I had forgotten what an accomplished, confident writer she is. I particularly enjoyed […]
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