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Two Japanese books about cats #ReadingTheMeowJapan truly seems to love a book about a cat, and I am here for it. Two of the other books I’ve read for the #ReadingTheMeow themed week are...
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Seven Cats I Have Loved by Anat Levit #ReadingTheMeow2023When I saw that Mallika was inaugurating a week devoted to books about cats , you know I had to join in. Books! Cats! Basically my two...
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Temples of Delight by Barbara TrapidoWe all say it often, but it really is true that our bookshelves can hold hidden gems just waiting to be discovered. Back in 2009, Bloomsbury...
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Rumour has it that he’s been buying booksI’ve been buying some books online and in-person over the past few weeks – quelle surprise – and I thought I’d talk you...
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Tea or Books? #117 w/ Lucy Scholes – Do We Like Unnamed Characters? and Ex-Wife vs Sally On The RocksUrsula Parrott, Winifred Boggs, unnamed characters – welcome to episode 117! document.createElement('audio');...
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Finishing #ABookADayInMay with The Finishing Touch by Brigid BrophyWe have got to the end of May! Thank you for all your encouragement and comments as I’ve finished my book each day – and particular...
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Divorce? Of Course by Mary Essex #ABookADayInMay No.30What a way with titles Mary Essex had! One of Ursula Bloom’s many pennames, she seems to have saved her best titles and best books for...
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London, With Love by Sarra Manning #ABookADayInMay No.29I’ve been e-friends with Sarra Manning for years, and have read some wonderful books on her recommendation – but somehow I have...
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Sagittarius by Natalia Ginzburg #ABookADayInMay No.28After a few days of feeling a bit lukewarm, or worse, about the books I’ve been reading, it was great today to read a really brilliant...
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Artful by Ali Smith #ABookADayInMay No.27I haven’t read any Ali Smith before, and I got sent Artful as a review copy when it was published in 2012 – and I decided on a...
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The Leper’s Companions by Julia Blackburn #ABookADayInMay No.26I normally have little interest in historical fiction, particularly set during the medieval period, but I decided to have a gamble on The...
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Nothing Dies by J.W. Dunne #ABookADayInMay No.25I meant to read Nothing Dies (1940) during the 1940 Club earlier this year – somehow, even though it is only 98 pages, I...
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My Face For The World To See by Alfred Hayes #ABookADayInMay No.24When Madame Bibi read Alfred Hayes’ In Love earlier in the month , it reminded me that I had My Face For The World To See (1958) on...
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It Ends With Revelations by Dodie Smith #ABookADayInMay No.23Back in 2012, lots of us were excited when Corsair reprinted some hard-to-find Dodie Smith novels – and with lovely cover...
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To Let by John Galsworthy #ABookADayInMay No.22Super quick post tonight, because it’s late. In fact, let’s do it in bullet points. I read To Let by John Galsworthy, originally...
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Amaryllis Night and Day by Russell Hoban #ABookADayInMay No.21In case anybody is counting – yes, I did read No.20 in A Book A Day in May and didn’t blog about it. The book I read is Ex-Wife by...
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The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka #ABookADayInMay No.19I think I picked up The Buddha in the Attic (2011) at a day that Penguin ran for book bloggers back in 2013 and it has survived numerous...
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A Flat Place by Noreen Masud #ABookADayInMay No.18I knew Noreen Masud a bit when our paths overlapped in Oxford, and we’ve stayed in touch on social media, so I was really interested...
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The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight #ABookADayInMay No.17I didn’t know anything about The Premonitions Bureau (2022) by Sam Knight when it turned up in the Audible sale – but the title,...
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Foster by Claire Keegan #ABookADayInMay No.16Today’s book is so short that it is almost a short story – 88 pages, or an hour and half as an audiobook (which is how I read it...
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Making Love by Jean-Philippe Toussaint #ABookADayInMay No.15I bought Making Love (2002) by the Belgian novelist Jean-Philippe Toussaint back in 2014, in an edition translated by Linda Coverdale...
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The Forensic Records Society by Magnus Mills #ABookADayInMay No.14I love Magnus Mills and have been reading him for years, and have a few on the shelves that I thought would be likely to come up in my May...
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Palladian by Elizabeth Taylor #ABookADayInMay No.13A short review as I’m just off to a Eurovision party! I think Palladian (1946) might be my final Elizabeth Taylor novel (though,...
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Gerald: A Portrait by Daphne du Maurier #ABookADayInMay No.12I usually try to join in Ali’s Daphne du Maurier Reading Week , though I wasn’t sure how I was going to make it work with...
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Tea or Books? #116: Do We Like Books About Sport and Quick Curtain vs It Walks By NightJohn Dickson Carr, Alan Melville, sports – welcome to episode 116! document.createElement('audio');...
