Category: Linda Castillo
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A good week with three books published by three favourite authors. The first was Crook O'Lune by E C R Lorac, one of the writers rediscovered and republished by the British Library Crime Classics. Not all of them, interesting thought they are, have been to my liking but this author I do like. I read…
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I have just realised the days are moving quickly and I will soon be in 2021 before I talk about my reading this year. So here goes with the second lot. The Crown in Crisis; the Countdown to the Abdication by Alexander Larman. This is one of the best, if not the best, of all…
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My sister came round for tea yesterday and pointed out to me that I had not posted for a week and when was I going to write again. The usual excuse at the moment, total sloth and generally feeling fed up with life and the world. Apropos of nothing I sat and watched Andy Murray…
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I don't know about you but in the summer I don't cook much, nor do I read What I Call serious reading. Too hot to cook, well sometimes, and also difficult to concentrate when the sun is shining. I like something light to eat and steak and kidney pie loses its savour. Ditto books. Not…
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Now that the hassle of new laptop and setting it up etc is behind me (well almost, scanner on printer not working yet but I am ignoring it for the moment), I am finally getting down to posting about books. I mentioned in one of my summing up posts of 2012 that I was seriously…
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I have a new upstairs neighbour and heaven knows what she must have thought the other night as I went to bed and started reading the latest Inspector Montalbano book by Camilleri, The Potter's Field. The first chapter had me weeping with laughter and in the end I just put the book down and lay…