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Tag Archives: reading
Classic Comfort Reads… with A.J. Griffiths-Jones
The idea behind the Classic Comfort posts is that each featured writer chooses a favourite title from the classics – we’ll define ‘classic’ as pre-1940 – and a favourite comfort read, a book they always return to, for whatever reasons. … Continue reading
Posted in books, Guest Posts
Tagged A.J. Griffiths-Jones, crime fiction, reading, true crime
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Classic Comfort Reads… with Cass Grafton
The idea behind the Classic Comfort posts is that each featured writer chooses a favourite title from the classics – we’ll define ‘classic’ as pre-1940 – and a favourite comfort read, a book they always return to, for whatever reasons. … Continue reading
Posted in books, Guest Posts, The Writing Life
Tagged Ada Bright, Cass Grafton, JK Rowling, reading, Wilkie Collins
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Classic Comfort Reads… with Alison Morgan
The idea behind the Classic Comfort posts is that each featured writer chooses a favourite title from the classics – we’ll define ‘classic’ as pre-1940 – and a favourite comfort read, a book they always return to, for whatever reasons. … Continue reading
Posted in books, Guest Posts, The Writing Life
Tagged A.B. Morgan, Hobeck Books, John Falkner, Quirk Series, reading, Roald Dahl
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The ‘Z’ Books… #A-Z books
And here it is – the last post in my 26-part blog series, started on April 7th 2019 and continued – roughly – every month ever since. It’s an adaptation of something I saw on Twitter – people were posting … Continue reading
Posted in books, The Writing Life
Tagged Gerald Durrell, James Higgerson, reading, Swallows and Amazons, The Almost Lizard
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The ‘Y’ Books… #A-Z books
This series is an adaptation of something I saw on Twitter – people were posting 26 books in 26 days, each title beginning with a different letter of the alphabet. However, I’m planning on taking around 26 months to get … Continue reading
Posted in books, The Writing Life
Tagged fiction, Kathryn Croft, Leo Tolstoy, Mary Higgins Clark, reading
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Classic Comfort Reads… with Morton S. Gray
The idea behind the Classic Comfort posts is that each featured writer chooses a favourite title from the classics – we’ll define ‘classic’ as pre-1940 – and a favourite comfort read, a book they always return to, for whatever reasons. … Continue reading
Posted in books, Guest Posts, The Writing Life
Tagged Morton S. Gray, North and South, reading, Wintercombe
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The ‘W’ Books… #A-Z books
This series is an adaptation of something I saw on Twitter – people were posting 26 books in 26 days, each title beginning with a different letter of the alphabet. However, I’m planning on taking around 26 months to get … Continue reading
Classic Comfort reads…
Now that the A-Z of books is drawing to a close (it’s the letter V next), I thought I’d start a new +/- monthly series, and this time, let other people choose the books too. I’m starting today, and next … Continue reading
Posted in books, My books, The Writing Life
Tagged A Room with a View, Classic Comfort, Coma, Daria's Daughter, reading
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The ‘R’ books… #A-Z books 📚
This series is an adaptation of something I saw on Twitter – people were posting 26 books in 26 days, each title beginning with a different letter of the alphabet. However, I’m planning on taking around 26 months to get … Continue reading
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Tagged crime fiction, Daphne du Maurier, Gavin Maxwell, Jo Fenton, nature, reading
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The ‘Q’ books… #A-Z books 📚
First of all, apologies for the somewhat homemade appearance of the blog this week; the new WordPress block editor has arrived and I can’t get the classic version back. (If anyone has an idiot’s guide to the new version, please … Continue reading