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Shell’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Shell’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Shell McConville
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Member Since
May 2008
My furrowed-middlebrow-etc shelf
I have read 10 novels from Dean Street Press and I know I will carry on collecting them. (The 'etc' covers other similar novels.)
In a world of screaming, over-emotional, over-stated, uninformative headlines (in both the traditional and the alternative media) and when very small incidents are over-dramatized and regarded as news (making Everests out of the smallest molehills), the world of these n Read more of this blog post »
In a world of screaming, over-emotional, over-stated, uninformative headlines (in both the traditional and the alternative media) and when very small incidents are over-dramatized and regarded as news (making Everests out of the smallest molehills), the world of these n Read more of this blog post »
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Faith and Fortune: A Sequel to Pride and Prejudice
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* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
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| When I reached the end of These Old Shades, I was reminded of The Count of Monte Cristo without the tedious middle third. I was also frequently thinking of The Scarlet Pimpernel all quizzing glasses, cravats and derring-do. I think it would have made ...more | |
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| In The Quiet Gentleman, we have another unwanted heir who is faced with the resentment and hostility of the family in situ. However, I did not find Gervase Frant as appealing as Major Hugo Darracott in The Unknown Ajax. His quiet nature seemed to pre ...more | |
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| At first, I thought this novel was a lot like Frederica. Venetia considers herself 'on-the-shelf' and spends her life managing a household and caring for her younger brothers. She meets a man with a 'reputation'. Again, similar to Frederica, there is ...more | |
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“Everything you can imagine is real.”
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“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
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“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun”
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“Creativity takes courage. ”
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