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BEYOND THE AIRING CUPBOARD
Book reviews, poems, general musings and more!
Whether you are doing your reading at home in the garden, on a plane heading for far off places or even on an escalator at a tube station, as I saw the other day, I hope you find pleasure in escaping into novels and poetry.
If you need a cheap(ish) treat, why not find a bookshop to wander in, hopefully with a coffee shop close by. If we only press the Amazon button at home we risk losing our lovely bookshops. We have to support them if we want them to remain.
Happy August reading.
Latest Posts
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The Winter Ghosts – Kate Mosse
If you have read Kate Mosse’s first bestseller Labyrinth which sold in its millions, and the subsequent books: Sepulchre and Citadel, you will be quite familiar with the author’s obsession with the Occitania, that region of south west France the goes down to Carcassonne, shares the mountainous border with Spain and has a language of […]
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The Art of Writing According to Stephen King
‘The road to hell is paved with adverbs,’ so says the bestselling author. Also, ‘If you’re describing what a character says, just write “he said,” … not “he pleaded” or “he gasped.” Well, I wonder how many lessons I taught on both these parts of English language. Also, disparaging description, his writing must be spare, […]
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The Ghosts of Rome – Joseph O’Connor
This was a birthday gift recently, in hard back. I had looked up when the paperback would be released and found that it wouldn’t be until next year, so, my patience ran out and I put it on my birthday list. The Ghosts of Rome is the second in a trilogy called ‘The Rome Escape […]
I grew up in freezing cold Kent in the 1950s and early 60s. The airing cupboard was the one place to curl up comfortably and read. The cat sometimes chose to join me. He too knew where it was warm …
Susan Brice