I love when something I’m reading bumps into something I’ve read recently. Of course, this sends the little file clerk who presides over my memory scurrying through the vaults, tossing pages frantically hither and yon,…
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Yes, I still have to complete my 2011 reading list, but just can’t resist copying out this passage from Craig Taylor’s Londoners. This is from the interview with civil engineer, Nick Tyler, who works with,…
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I’ve made the most of no-marking weekends lately — that’s the end of them for a while, so I’m glad I did. Some good escape reading: Alan Bradley’s Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie.…
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Finished reading Catherine Sanderson’s Petite Anglaise and found it an enjoyable, well-written, light book, a “creative-non-fiction”/memoir that reads almost as a novel. My escape fiction/formula fiction of choice is generally the well-written mystery novel; as…
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