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Packing Light: a Week in Shropshire
Last week we were on holiday in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. November holidays usually bring a mix of weather, so it was important to make sure I had flexible pieces that would enable me to cope with everything from heavy rain and near-freezing temperatures to sunny autumn days. I love to travel light on trips, and aim…
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How I Discovered I was Losing My Hair
It first occured to me that I might be losing my hair when I visited a barber in the village I would soon be moving to. He was proper old school, with the striped pole outside, nicotine-stained walls, fifties black-and-white prints in the windows, a white coat, and a direct manner of speaking that only…
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Top Three Books of 2022
My reading rate has picked up again in 2022, and this year I’ve read another mix of non-fiction, novels, and short stories, keeping track of everything through Goodreads as usual. 1st – Winner – Every Summer After by Carley Fortune Every Summer After is the New York Times bestselling debut by Carley Fortune. It’s a “second-chance…
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Book Review: One Day in December
One Day in December by Josie Silver. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Josie Silver’s One Day in December is an entertaining second chance love story that begins when Laurie James first encounters Jack O’Mara as she notices him through the steamed-up windows of her bus when it pulls up at a bus stop. Their…
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Book Review: The Catsitters
The Catsitters by James Wolcott. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. Johnny Downs, the protagonist in James Wolcott’s The Catsitters, has been compared to a male equivalent of Bridget Jones. I’m not sure I fully agree with that, as Downs is much cooler than Jones, and far less scatty. However, the novel certainly explores the…
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Book Review: Every Summer After
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Every Summer After is the New York Times bestselling debut by Carley Fortune. It’s a “second-chance romance” novel that marks a step out of my comfort zone into a genre that perhaps it’s still fair to say is traditionally enjoyed by women. I’ve…
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Book Review: Water Shall Refuse Them
Water Shall Refuse Them by Lucie McKnight Hardy. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. When I scanned the synopsis for Water Shall Refuse Them, I knew I had to read the novel. Several themes attracted me immediately: the heatwave of 1976, the rural setting, and the folk horror of the British landscape. The unsettling tone…
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