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Not Reading but Writing
Alongside my reading this month I have been pursuing a correspondence challenge with the aim of getting me back into more regular letter writing and keeping in... Read more
Posted on 17 February 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE -
My Audio Crime Habit
I have previously written about my audio crime habit that livens up my rather tedious bus journeys into work. Well, I am here to tell you that both the audio an... Read more
Posted on 09 February 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Jane Austen: Private Eye
Today’s blog topic is a hangover from last year, when I had the idea of delving into detective novels featuring real historical figures. Read more
Posted on 26 January 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE -
January Blogging Optimism (?)
This is to be yet again an attempt to revitalise the Landing Tales blog and to see if it has any life left in it. Last year’s attempt foundered as you, Dear... Read more
Posted on 16 January 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Midsummer on the Landing Book Shelves
This post returns us to the original idea behind the blog, reading or re-reading some of the books on the (admittedly former) Landing Book Shelves. Read more
Posted on 27 June 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Groucho Marx: Detective
Previously, dear readers, I left you to wonder who was going to be my first example of famous person as crime-solver in my new occasional blog series. Read more
Posted on 09 June 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE -
A Criminal New Blog Theme?
I have been mulling over a theme for an new occasional series of Landing Tales blog posts. Perhaps not surprisingly, the germ of this new idea lies in my... Read more
Posted on 28 April 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Flowerpot Forager
As it is Easter weekend, I thought that I would put up a quick garden-related post inspired by a book that I ordered from my local library in January. Read more
Posted on 30 March 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Nature on The Landing: Bird Feeders
As the weather is still tending to be generally less than springlike, I thought that I would revisit my attempts at making fat cakes for our garden bird... Read more
Posted on 25 February 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE -
New Year TBR Pile: Status Update
This is the post where I talk about all those lovely books that I received for Christmas and that now adorn my never diminishing TBR Pile. I know that it is... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Garden Diary Re-visited
As we are almost at the end of May, I have decided that it is time for another Garden Diary post, having not ventured from The Landing region to the sunny... Read more
Posted on 29 May 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE -
One Pair of Hands by Monica Dickens
Today’s post sees me slipping back into library mode with One Pair of Hands, a book that I reserved after having heard about it from a borrower. Read more
Posted on 25 April 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Childhood Favourite: The Sea Witch Comes Home by Malcolm Saville
This novel by Malcolm Saville (1901-1982) represents another dive into my literary past, as Saville’s Lone Pine adventure stories were once great favourites of... Read more
Posted on 26 March 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Georgian Dublin Walking Tour
Following on from the Birmingham related topic of the last post, here is a Dublin flavoured piece to continue the city theme. This is one of those ‘out and... Read more
Posted on 12 February 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Birmingham Art Book
In this post, I’m featuring a new resident on the Landing Book Shelves, a Christmas gift no less. The book is the Birmingham Art Book: The City Through the... Read more
Posted on 30 January 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Books on the Bus
Crime on the commuteI noted in the last blog post that I was listening to The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz (read by Roy Kinnear) on my commute. Read more
Posted on 28 February 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The New Year Resolution That Wasn’t
The germ of this first blog post of 2022 is a resolution that I probably ought to make this year, should have made in previous years and in all likelihood will... Read more
Posted on 30 January 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Pondering on Those Interminable Book Lists
Book of BooksYet again, I have to account for a long blogging gap on the Landing Book Shelves, as it has been a few months since my last optimistic post. Yet... Read more
Posted on 03 October 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE -
A Brief Notice: The Landing Book Shelves is on the Move!
You may think that things are never-changing here on The Landing, but that is not in fact the case. There is always a certain degree of book shuffling going on... Read more
Posted on 30 March 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Ireland Reads Day: Squeezing in a Read (or Two)
Today’s Landing Tales post is written in support of the #Ireland Reads day, so I want to talk a little about my memories of my early reading life (once upon a... Read more
Posted on 25 February 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE