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Tag Archives: reading
2022… The best of times and the worst of times #NewYear
If anything taught us that nothing lasts forever, it was 2022. The moment we got used to the covid numbers going down, up they went again. As soon as we were accustomed to calling one person ‘the prime minister’, someone … Continue reading
Posted in books, Life in Switzerland, My books, The Writing Life
Tagged 2022, books, crime fiction, feel-good fiction, Happy New Year, Hobeck Books, reading, Writing
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Classic Comfort Reads… with Maureen Myant
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 Anne of Green Gables, Maureen Myant, reading, The Confession, Wordsworth
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Classic Comfort Reads… with Terry Tyler
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 Jerome k Jerome, reading, Susan Howatch, Terry Tyler, Writing
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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
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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
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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