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Read this last year - fantastic! Sign me up as your North East Derbyshire scout.
Our Aurelian Year...
I have decided that if Patrick Barkham can have one, so can I... in fact stand by, because I think I can make that 'we'. To explain, I am reading The Butterfly Isles A Summer in Search of Our Emperors and Admirals by Patrick Barkham, his account of a year spent tracking down and sighting every...
This was also my first by this author and still remains my favourite, although I've yet to read The Hand That First Held Mine.
After You'd Gone ~ Maggie O'Farrell
I was so pleased to hear that Maggie O'Farrell had won her first major literary prize this week, the Costa Novel Award for The Hand That First Held Mine. Thoroughly well deserved and here's hoping it leads to an upsurge in backlist exploration too because this one's a cracker. Whenever I hav...
I've just finished this. As someone who's "been there" so to speak, once the dog has crossed your threshold, it's very difficult to get rid of him. A very moving reading experience.
Mr Chartwell ~ Rebecca Hunt
There is no question about it, if you decide to read Mr Chartwell it will be necessary to suspend disbelief, in fact leave it way back around the corner and just immerse yourself in Rebecca Hunt's highly original and very imaginative conceit, which, for all its eccentricities and at times a fain...
Lynne, I saw this play last year in Nottingham and it was brilliant. We went to the matinee on a Saturday and as far as I can recall, the mixed-age audience was reasonably well behaved.
The Woman in Black @ The Theatre Royal
This is all my fault. I'm an old curmudgeon who was clearly never cut out for theatre-going because every one else annoys me far too much, and perhaps on this basis, I'll throw in the towel and just perform the plays myself to an audience of me and then I can't complain. I'd read the book and ...
Look after that back! I joined a yoga class last September and it's one of the best things I've ever done.
With apologies...
Sadly I've had to cancel my trip to the Wenlock Poetry Festival this weekend. I'm desperately disappointed but daren't risk a lower back that is creaking a bit too precariously this week and needs to be kept moving. Taking on two 6 - 7 hr coach trips (can it really take as long to get from Ply...
I finished this book at the beginning of the week, I had been reading it for the best part of a month. Other things kept getting in the way, as they so often do, but I wanted to make time to treat this story with the reverence I felt it deserved. It was not a book I could pick up and put down at any time or in any place. I have read all the other comments with interest. For me, this was a very powerful story. I felt that for Brodeck, writing the report was a kind of therapy. I saw the rest of the villagers as the flock but Brodeck was the Black Sheep. Although the Mayor was an unlikeable character, he was the shepherd of the flock and was allowing Brodeck to come to terms with events, to move on and be accepted again by the community. The murder of the Anderer was one straw too many. Aspects of this book reminded me of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and also Lovely Green Eyes. Although I have moved on to something else, this story is still with me.
Not the TV Book Group - Brodeck's Report by Philippe Claudel
Stand by...three....two....one... *IN THE ETHER* A very warm welcome to the first in the series of Not the TV Book Group. I'm Lynne and I scribble here at dovegreyreader... sitting next to me here on the virtual sofa it's my pleasure to introduce Kirsty from Other Stories...then Kim who lives...
Hippo Birdie Two Ewe!
Happy Birthday to...
Us! Because almost 2,300 posts later, dovegreyreader scribbles is... Four years old today. In the absence of anything arriving from the Poet Laureate (I could barely conceal my disappointment) Bookhound settled down to compose an ode of gratitude to you all in celebration of this very auspicio...
I had this book out from the library but had to return it because it was requested - although I am "staff" I never abuse the system. So now I will have to wait until a reading group has finished with it because they seem to have requested all the available copies.
Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor
I'm not quite sure how I feel now I've turned the final page of Jon McGregor's latest novel, Even the Dogs published by Bloomsbury because 'enjoy' is the wrong word but 'appreciate' doesn't come close either, so this is a rather long post because I have to show you my 'working out' to get to my...
DGR, in reply to your question - I sort of guessed, but it was still a shock when I actually read the page you refer to. All in all, it's one big shocking read.
dovegreyreading...
I thought it would be good to share what I'm actually reading this week as opposed to what it says I'm reading over there <<<< which I am, but, of that selection, several books have requested my undivided attention and I'd love to know what you have on the go at the moment too. Sometimes I hear ...
I have just finished We Need To Talk About Kevin (with some books I am years behind everybody else). I am now reading Flight by Sherman Alexie.
dovegreyreading...
I thought it would be good to share what I'm actually reading this week as opposed to what it says I'm reading over there <<<< which I am, but, of that selection, several books have requested my undivided attention and I'd love to know what you have on the go at the moment too. Sometimes I hear ...
Lovely news, well done Robin!
Just to say...
I may be lying down in a darkened room for much of today, because last night was my first ever proper performance with the ladies choir I joined last September, who were singing in concert with the Loveny Male Voice Choir down in deepest Cornwall in aid of the Shelterbox appeal for Haiti. More o...
I am doing a happy dance, I think you know why!
Not The TV Book Group - the selection
What a busy day but we've got there, and after our online meeting at midday we have our Not the TV Book Group choices and a schedule for Series One. I am also aware that I douse you in book experiences aplenty, so I don't want anyone feeling overwhelmed or panicked by all this reading being lai...
Thank God for Auntie and Wallander! (I might read next weeks undiscussed book - Blacklands by Belinda Bauer.)
Channel 4 TV Book Club
There has been so much ado in the press in recent weeks about Amanda Ross (of Richard & Judy book club fame) and the new Channel 4 TV Book Club that I had decided to watch. Amanda Ross has been telling authors how to write a book for a book club etc and what constitutes a great read for a book g...
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