Month: April 2017
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Books piling up again as per. I do not know why I worry and fret as I came to terms with the fact yonks ago that I am NEVER going to be able to cope with everything that comes my way. However, when lovely publishers sent me books I feel terrible pangs of guilt if…
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I have recently read two versions of The Watsons by Jane Austen and have found it very amusing to see how they differ and how the authors of both completions have diverged so widely in so many ways. The story is told from the viewpoint of Emma Watson who, like Jane Fairfax, had been sent…
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More from the British Library Classic Crime series and more from this author who I discovered last year. Delightfully old fashioned, the inspector catches the bus to appointments, uses the telephone to ask for information and, even more daring, occasionally uses a fax machine (but only in the later novels). I really enjoy them and…
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By now everyone who visits Random knows I love crime novels. I have done all my life and it is such a joy to have the British Library reprinting so many of the classic stories and making them available again. The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley is one of the most famous classic who…
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I have given up trying to keep pace with this author's output. At one stage in my reading career I was chasing up the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency, the 44 Scotland Street Series and ditto the Corduroy Mansion books. It all got a bit much and so I retired from the field. I have…
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I am back and writing this at 5 am as jet lag is still with me though receding fast thank goodness. I had seven hours sleep last night which is more than I usually get so am happy with that. Difficult to realise I am home, it feels odd and I have got used…