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2022 Book Log 1- Later by Stephen King
Oh, I see I didn't post beyond 8 here last year - was mostly on the other computer that doesn't have the password saved...
I intended to try starting 2022’s recreational books with Dickens’s The Cricket On The Hearth, but it’s more a Xmas book, which was past already, and it was tiny print that was also repro to Victorian paper, so somewhat broken ( Read more... ) -
Book Log 2021 #8- STONEHENGE by Rosemary Hill
#8) STONEHENGE by Rosemary Hill.
A book about a subject that’s under constant study is always at risk of being superseded by new discoveries, and, having come out in 2008, this one was before the latest revelation a year or so back that a version of the monument had been set up in Wales first and was physically brought with its builders to the site ( Read more... ) -
Book Log 2021 whoops
I came in to post #5 and saw I hadn't posted #3 or #4.
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Book Log 2021 #22 - BETWEEN TWO THORNS ny Emma Newman
2021 booklog #2 BETWEEN TWO THORNS by Emma Newman
A light entertaining mixture of fae fantasy and mystery. Starts off with two magic-themed mysteries, gives us two great characters in the forms of Cathy, a woman with a very strange past that gets her into present trouble, and a detective with a gargoyle sidekick, who I’d love to see done in a TV ( Read more... ) -
Book Log 2021 #01 THE CHIMES by Charles Dickens
THE CHIMES by Charles Dickens
You can tell A Christmas Carol went well for Dickens, cos he tried to repeat the effect a few more times, in his Christmas Books. The Chimes is the second one, published only a year later, but definitely suffers from what we’d now call sequelitis. This follows a similar path of a lead character - albeit one far more ( Read more... ) -
2020 soundtrack
I did manage to compile a 66 track score for 2020, and here it is. As always, the tracks do reflect specific events or moods, but only I know what they are...
1)Exercise at Gibraltar [John Barry, The Living Daylights]
2) Don’t Lose Your Head (Carry On Don’t Lose Your Head)
3)Persistence (Jeff Russo, Discovery season 1)
4)The Woman He Loves (Murray ( Read more... ) -
Happy March 397th 2020 everybody
So what did I manage in 2020, my 52nd year? Um... earned not one penny, finished not one writing project [these are probably connected, but Lesley needed to do her writing to stay sane while keyworking, and I can't write when there's typing going on], fought no tournaments, got no auths, nor got my students any auths of prize plays... in fact moved ( Read more... ) -
Book Log 2020 #22 Twelve Angels Weeping
22 - TWELVE ANGELS WEEPING by David RuddenAn anthology of Dr Who stories ostensibly themed around Xmas, but actually most of the stories mention a festive season barely or not at all. As you might expect from an anthology there’s quite a range styles and also of quality. Some of the stories get the characters and monsters spot on, such as Twelve ( Read more... ) -
Book Log 2020 #21 Murder On The Orient Express
21 - MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS by Agatha Christie.Yeah, I’m familiar enough with the story to remember who did it, but not why or how it plays out, cos my set of the Suchet Poirots doesn’t go up to this one, and I’m planning to watch the Branagh version which is over Xmas, so…
It’s another classic Poirot plot, from 1934, and written most in ( Read more... ) -
Book Log 2020 #20 BLITZCAT with spoilers
20 - BLITZCAT by Robert Westall
This is a really good one, mostly. The titular cat is essentially the framing device for a portmanteau of affecting stories of people’s lives in 1940 and ’41. Her journey to find her one true person brings her into the lives of various people from wartime widows to carters to a bomber crew… They’re all really good, ( Read more... )