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• Bookish Notes mid-August

  

  It’s been a discombobulating week, but the highlight was visiting the current Classic Crime Fiction exhibition at the University Library in Cambridge. Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Cost of Living

  

  Yesterday we visited my parents to celebrate my mother’s 82nd birthday. She never expected to live beyond 80, given that both her mother and grandmother died... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• What Rules? Virginia Woolf’s The Years

  

  This is where it began: ‘I think this will be a terrific affair. I must be bold adventurous. I want to give the whole of the present society–nothing less:... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Reading Notes from July

  

  1. My cat, Dexter, is a keen reader and his favourite author is Georgette Heyer. I realised this some time ago, when I noticed that he came to join me and staye... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Second Best by David Foenkinos, Trans. Megan Jones

  

  How much of your life would you ascribe to luck or fortune or destiny? Would you consider them even to be the same thing? For most of us, chance and... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Whistle-stop Tour Enters an Ironic Part 3

  

  Every so often, fate relents. Pretty much the moment we arrived in Triscombe and stepped into the warm glow of our little log cabin, we knew we were going to... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Whistle Stop Tour Part 2

  

  When our son is asked what his parents are like, he says that his mother is the most introverted person he knows and his father is the most extroverted. As a... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Best Books, Worst Books of the Past Four Years

  Part 2 is coming, it really is. But in the meantime, some books. Ten Great Hits Early Morning Riser and Games and Rituals by Katherine Heiny In the past few... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Whistle-stop Tour Through The Highs and Lows of the Past Four Years

  Four years and (almost) three months have passed since I last posted here, and I am not the same woman that I was. So much has happened, to me personally and... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Notes From the Bunker

  23rd March 2020 The first thing I said to my CBT therapist on our skype call last weekend was: I’ve picked one hell of a time to deal with my health anxiety.... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Mary Oliver; Loving the Work

  

  Many years ago now, when I was struggling to understand the limits of my responsibility towards people who were sad or suffering, my therapist gave me a poem... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Book Recommendations, Please!

  

  I’m doing a spot of research into the period 1936-1960 in UK history and looking for things to read that will give me a real flavour of how people lived during... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Year in Books So Far

  

  It’s been a funny old year, reading-wise. I was pondering why this might be so when it suddenly occurred to me that my algorithm for purchasing books has... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Litlove and the UFO

  A couple of domestic incidents in fact, as quirk and whimsy seem essential qualities to balance out what’s going on in the world right now. Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Of Workshops and Kittens

  

  So ages ago, I promised you the saga of Mr Litlove’s new workshop and now that he is finally in and preparing for Open Studios once again, I think it’s safe to... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Real Hope For Dark Days

  

  It’s a sore trial living in the UK at the moment. After three years of the shambolic Brexit debacle, in which zero progress has been made, we’re now forced to... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Blood Out of a Stoner

  

  I don’t quite know why I’m writing this when I have completely lost faith in this kind of blog post, but Mr Litlove and I have discussed Stoner and its... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• So Where Were We?

  

  Goodness, how time passes! The last update I wrote on this blog, we were putting our house on the market and were all set to start a new venture somewhere that... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• I Will Embrace Self-Help, I Will

  

  When the kind publicity assistant sent me a copy of Physical Intelligence by Claire Dale and Patricia Peyton, she probably had no idea she was sending it to... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Adventures of Big Beery

  Mr Litlove is a man who works in insidious ways, and so I can’t recall how he first brought up the topic of moving house. All I can remember is being in the... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE