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I never knew anything about my maternal grandfather. When I eventually did find out a bit, it DID influence the plot for a book.
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Weird Ales 2: Another Round
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Kingswinford Sunset
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She's Alone
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The Cold
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Lydgate
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End of Year 2025
First time I've failed to meet my target in the reading challenge - six short, with 29 read instead of the intended 35. This is no disaster, as I've been tending to read older, longer texts this year and I intend to continue to do so: The Anatomy of Melancholy, Waverley, Roxanna, Roderick Random and The American are all on my intended list for '26. These will take time digesting. So I shall begin
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| Some fun stuff for the Bob enthusiast here, though the reproduction in the photographic section is so ropey in the edition I have (not the one shown) that it's no wonder the Wilson estate has taken their business from New Falcon to Hilaritas. I learn ...more | |
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| Not one to read before you have a reasonable grounding in Fourth Century BC Greek History. Some, but not much, of whatever it was that made Demosthenes revered as the father of political oratory comes through in this translation. It's fascinating to ...more | |
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| Many passages of exposition and comment will be thought unnecessary and boring by early twenty-first century readers and the last-but-one chapter of relentlessly happy end could have been almost entirely dispensed with, but Waverley remains an essent ...more | |
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| One of those oddities that came out after the war, completely at odds with the expectations of what was thought to be Serious Literature back then: Titus Groan stuck out in a similarly sore thumb-like manner, as did The Lord of the Rings, which came ...more | |
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| 'Luke's the professional writer: he wrote the sequel', said a vicar I know, pointing out what sets this writer apart from the other canonized gospellers. As a sequel, it's clearly going to be a disappointment: whatever you think him to have been, or ...more | |
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| An interesting though slightly awkward time travel conundrum that catches Dick in the process of learning his craft: the sequences of physical action aren't well-paced and the pulp-ish 'love interest' sometimes cringe worthy. But you can see the Borg ...more | |
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| At eighty-eight and knowing herself to be nearing death, LeGuin produced this clear and understanding little book of verse that all who love her fiction from Rocannon's World to Lavinia will treasure. I've not come across a message from the upper lim ...more | |
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