No 465 A Certain Smile by Francoise Sagan (translated by Irene Ash) #1956Club
The 1956 Club is running this week! The twice-yearly Reading Clubs were devised by Simon at Stuck in a Book and Karen at Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings Every six months a particular year is chosen to encourage fellow bloggers (and anyone online!) to read, discover, explore and share the love of books written in the particular year. …
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Sunday Praise: What’s made me happy this week?
Six Degrees of Separation
No 466 A Sincere Warning About The Entity In Your Home by Jason Arnopp
I feel like I am cheating a little by counting A Sincere Warning about the Entity in Your Home by Jason Arnopp in the 746 countdown as I didn’t realise until I went to read it that it is a mere 38 pages long! So, it is less of a book and more of a…
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A poem for National Poetry Day
It’s National Poetry Day here in the UK and I thought I would share one of my favourite poems by Maggie Smith – a poem which always feels timely and always feels hopeful. GOOD BONES by Maggie Smith Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine…
September Miscellany
Sunday Praise: What’s made me happy this week?
Recent Crime Fiction from Ireland!
No 467 The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
The Stepford Wives needs no introduction. Thanks to not one, but two movie adaptations, it has a plot so famous as to have entered cultural discourse – everyone knows what a Stepford Wife is now, but the novel upon which the films are based is a much more interesting and ambiguous affair. It is in…
