Claire’s Corner
So, I’ve been blogging rather sporadically of late; all I can offer as a reason is that I’ve been busy and London was in the sweaty grips of a heatwave (the operative word being “was”). Pedicures and Pimm’s have been more appealing than posting, to be honest, but I do miss conversing about all things [...]
Claire’s Corner
Have you seen Google’s homepage today? They have the beautiful literary-inspired dedication above to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, today is the 110th anniversary of his birth. If you haven’t read his novella, Le Petit Prince, then please do; it is a curious and wonderfully philisophical book. I have a beautiful illustrated edition and also a cherish [...]
Claire’s Corner
The latest installments of The Bloomsbury Group series -complete with vibrantly coloured covers- arrived at Paperback Reader abode today (published in the UK July 5th). The one I am most excited about reading is the double-header photographed above: Mrs Harris Goes to Paris & Mrs Harris Goes to New York (or, And Other Adventures, as [...]
Claire’s Corner
If you’re in London then you may have noticed some elephants around. Between May and July there are 250 baby elephant sculptures dotted around Central London, each with a unique design by an artist; the Elephant Parade is a “conservation campaign that shines a multi-coloured spotlight on the urgent crisis faced by the endangered [...]
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Have you seen Nymeth’s 1930s Mini-Challenge? I require no additional encouragement to read from the time period (I love inter-war literature) so I shall definitely be participating, especially when all that is required is to read one book during a three month period (beginning this week), which helpfully overlaps with Persephone Reading Week. Excluding those [...]
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