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Book Review: The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
This is a story about death, grief, books, material possessions, mental health, mental illness, zen ideology, hoarding, clutter, consumerism, single parenthood… the list goes on and makes this story sound both expansive […]
Top Ten Tuesday: Books In My Future Library
Today’s topic is ‘Books I Loved So Much I Had to Get a Copy for My Personal Library’. My personal library is just at the moment suffering from lack of space (think double stacked and still meandering onto the ‘floor shelf’) and I’m using the local library or my audible subscription where at all possible. So I’m reinterpreting this prompt as books I’ve borrowed but which one day I would love to own.
Book Review: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel
This novel somehow manages to feel both huge and intimate. Its mere 255 pages span centuries. We start with Edwin – a man emigrating from England to Canada in 1912, then Mirella […]
June Wrap Up
This wrap up (and indeed my most recent reading) has been rudely delayed by an unwelcome house-guest in the form of Covid, but since he has now pretty much departed – leaving […]
First Lines Friday #3
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted byย Wandering Words. Today’s book was a gift to me that I’m very much looking forward to reading.
Review: Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter #20booksofsummer22
This little novella completely floored me. In 114 pages of half-prose and half-poetry, it speaks from the point of view of a bereaved family – boys who lost their mother and a […]
My Writings – see more here
The Songs Remain
Communications are getting Scrambled. Once knew three languages, complete with traditional songs. Transcribed politics with my typewriter, Romanced my love with the same, Poems tapped on round, chapped keys – The rubbed […]
The River’s Lament
How can I convince you, Iโm a river not a sewer?! I wasn’t always caged in Victorian walls, raging in the dark of an underground vein, sunlight dust-diluted, broken by gratings. My […]
The Magic Mooring
Geshel tied the mooring ropes tight and sat cradling his tea. This mooring had never been free before. It was popular. A comfortable dayโs journey from Cabrin, only a few hours from Bow market, […]
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