Partner and I were watching An Old Movie the other day.
Talking it over later, I remarked that I had first seen Old Movie in question in the second-run/revival cinema in my hometown, and that we had gone in at a relatively late point in the narrative and had - as was the custom in those days - sat sitting there, through the ads and the trailers and ( Read more... )

This does sound really rather blissikins, do admit (okay, a touch of Mitford-fatigue did set in when one observed the patching together of a volume of Diana's papers, but this is Debo).

And you know, I would really like to know more about the shadowy, mysterious, early-dead figure of brother Tom ('Tuddemy').

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Kathryn Hughes on a clever and ( Read more... )

Thinking over my remark in yesterday's post about having read several books that were well on in related series, that these particular volumes were not perhaps the place to start, I wondered, Why Not?

In the course of many decades' reading I have read a fair number of sequences myself out of order, for a whole range of reasons, either because that ( Read more... )