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Classic Club: Favourite opening sentence

You open a book for the first time and read the first few sentences. You might be confronted with a ‘brick through the wall’ type of opening much favoured by writers of crime and adventure stories  –...

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To read or to re-read?

There was a column published recently by Stuart Kelly in the Guardian newspaper here in the UK, that got me thinking about my reading habits. More particularly it got me thinking about my re-reading...

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The ideal travelling companion?

Suitcase is packed. Passport and currency checked and rechecked. Now all that remains is to decide what book will accompany me on my work trip to Michigan later today. It’s even more difficult a...

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10 novels I wrestled with .. and sometimes failed

The topic for this week’ s Top Ten Tuesday meme is all about books that were a struggle to get through. Lets start with two that were such a struggle I never made it to the final page. They were both...

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WWWednesday 25 April 2018

WWWednesday is hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words  which involves just three questions What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read...

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WWWednesday 2 May 2018

WWWednesday is hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words  which involves just three questions What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read...

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WWWednesday 22 August 2018

The weeks certainly go fast don’t they? I can’t believe Wednesday has come around again so its time for another WWWednesday post. WWWednesday is hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words  and...

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WWWednesday 4 September 2018

It’s time for another update using the WWWednesday formula created by Sam at Taking on a World of Words    What are you currently reading? The Girl in the Red Coat is the debut novel by Kate Hamer....

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WWWednesday: What Are You Reading? 24 October 2018

It’s a while since I did this meme which involves answering three questions set by Sam at Taking on a World of Words    What are you currently reading? During a recent bout of  “squaring away”...

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Bookends #13: April 2019

This week’s Bookends features an article about Faber and Faber as they mark their 90th anniversary, a blog post about reading those books that regularly appear in those “100 books you must read” kind...

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Reader preference – Single or multiple narrators?

This week’s Bookends features a new novel from an author in Wales, an article and podcast about narrative voices and an article about the value of creative writing courses. Book: Crushed by Kate Hamer...

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The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope —Curtain Falls On Old Friends

It took Anthony Trollope almost fourteen years to write The Chronicles of Barsetshire. It’s taken me about eighteen to read the 3469 pages that make up his series of six books set in the fictional...

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