Category: Peter Lovesey
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I am getting really tired of January and the cold weather. Winter seems to have gone on for a long time this year. I have been in Cambridge this week for a couple of days and the driving there was hampered by road works and the return journey not much fun as ice on the…
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Time for a reading round up as I have got through quite a few in the last week or two. Here goes: Liz Trenow – The Secrets of the Lake. Liz Trenow live in Colchester, as do I, and years ago our children attended the same school and playgroup and played together. When I received…
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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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Torpor. What a lovely word. Just saying it makes you feel languid and lazy and idle and can't be bothered. And that is how I have felt the last week and this afternoon roused myself to start writing about books I have read over the last ten days. I have read a couple of stinkers,…
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When I first started this blog some thirteen years ago now, I had such good intentions. I was going to read Serious Books. Books which were Good for Me by writers who were lauded as being the best. I looked at the Booker long lists, I chose, I read, I ploughed on. I took…
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First of all, apologies for lack of posts. I have been busy and have just had my grandchildren to stay so exhaustion, happy exhaustion I hasten to say, is the order of the day and I am still recovering. It is now nice and quiet and I am sitting in my favourite chair with the…
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I have spent most of this week either watching cricket or reading crime novels and seem to have got through rather a lot. Weather has been stifling so have stayed indoors in the cool only venturing out in the evening when it is such a nice time to sit in the garden and read. Was…