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Monday, 31 August 2020
Rats as big as cats
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You have to admire the courage of war correspondents, the journalists who place themselves in the middle of a conflict in order to bring us...
Thursday, 20 August 2020
Excusing Barbara Cartland
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I had a good laugh at Barbara Cartland's expense after finishing Mission to Monte Carlo . I texted my literary chum who sniggered, tha...
Thursday, 6 August 2020
Romantic fiction or psychological manipulation?
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I just read my first, and last, Barbara Cartland book, Mission to Monte Carlo . It's a piece of romantic fluff set at the turn of the 2...
Saturday, 1 August 2020
After lockdown
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I stirred when the sun came through the shutters, casting golden dashes on the wall. The bed was silent and empty, the Dog asleep on the sof...
Friday, 31 July 2020
One reads for pleasure. It is not a public duty.
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I've been watching Season 1 of The Crown again and particularly enjoyed episode 7, Scientia Potentia Est(1). Poor Princess Elizabeth s...
Monday, 27 July 2020
The culmination of a lifetime of struggle
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In the Prologue to A Cure for Gravity Joe Jackson describes an eventful 1975 gig in Basingstoke. He follows up with musings on where his l...
Thursday, 16 July 2020
The problem of society's expectations
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How could a white person know what it's like to be a BAME woman in the UK? A good place to start is to read Bernardine Evaristo's G...
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