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One Day by David Nicholls

For the first post in, again, quite some time, I have entered into dialogue my fellow blogger and friend, Simon of Stuck in a Book.  Please enjoy our ramblings about One Day by David Nicholls (the obligatory orange jacket for the book accompany this post – it appears everywhere else so why not here?!) SIMON: [...]

Ch-Ch-Changes

You may have noticed that my blogging has been somewhat sporadic of late.  This has been for a myriad of reasons; I have been busier than normal with several projects and a busy calendar, which is going to become even more chaotic over the coming months.  However, I have also been a bit of a [...]

The Return

Hello, all.  I have officially returned from a holiday at home; I was back in London at the tail-end of last week but we enjoyed a few more days off de-compressing from our time away.  Glasgow was … temperamental weather-wise; one day I was driving along a flooded street in torrential rain, water up to [...]

Another Literary Loss

Nobel-laureate, José Saramago, has died today.  Blindness, considered to be his finest work, has been fighting its way to the top of my to-be-read for the past year and is on my literary bucket list; it is sad that it takes the writer’s death to finally place it at the top but it has.  In [...]

Books, Red Wine and Chocolate

When I’m reading I do like doing it with a cuppa and some chocolate; I have also been known to have a glass of wine in one hand and a book in the other.  When I was given the opportunity to review chocolate with red wine, it was an offer I could not decline.  I [...]

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