The Reading Life – 2019
Let’s face it, the reading life never disappoints even if many things in our private lives (like my utter inability to get this first sentence to format properly), and unfolding…
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Let’s face it, the reading life never disappoints even if many things in our private lives (like my utter inability to get this first sentence to format properly), and unfolding…
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You can tell by the length of this list that not a lot of writing got done in 2018! Oops. Still, I almost hit my goal of reading one hundred…
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Darn it, one year I WILL read one hundred books! In 2017 I didn’t even get close. Nevertheless (this is becoming my go-to word, that’s what happens when you read…
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“It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times,” writes Ali Smith in the opening of Autumn, (a book I’ve just started), and, damn, ain’t that the…
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In the middle of June, I packed books, pinboards, a laptop, wellies, a holdall of tatty clothes, and Dougie the dog into the car, and headed for the Scottish Borders.…
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I’ve often remarked that I’m a slow writer, but I’m not sure folks really get how slow. I’m not talking slow-food slow here; you’d starve to death waiting for me to cook…
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