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Preparing for My China Trip
I’ll be leaving in just a few days for my epic three-week China trip. My son is fully ensconced in my house now and has been hobnobbing with Kasper almost to the point of overtaking me as the favourite, so I know my cat and flat will be in good hands. I’m still a little ……
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Two Contrasting Books, Both Excellent
For some reason, I’d lost a little of my reading mojo and just couldn’t get excited about books. I returned two to the library without finishing them, I couldn’t decide what to read next, I just wasn’t eager to whip out my Kindle or physical book to read on public transport……
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#6Degrees of Separation: From Life of M to…
October starts as usual with another set of six degrees of literary separation, as hosted by our lovely Kate. This month’s starting point is Life of M by Rachel Cusk, which I haven’t read. I know many people have issues with Rachel Cusk’s work (I’ve liked her non-fiction perhaps…
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#FridayFun: Street Art in the Forest
Last weekend I went to the artificial hill called Teufelsberg (Devil’s Hill), set in a lush forest on the outskirts of Berlin. The hill was built from the rubble left after the Second World War in West Berlin and was initially intended to become a leisure area, especially for…
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Reading Summary for September 2026
As you might have surmised from my previous post, I’ve been enjoying life a little too much (when I haven’t been working) in September, and my reading reflects that. I only read seven books and, despite my intention to compensate by reading more English language books, in fact I…
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Bountiful September
I’ll write a separate post to summarise my reading activity for September, but I’ve also been involved in so many events and seen so many new things that I wanted to share these with you in a separate post. (And possibly a third Friday Fun one for additional pictures). Life has…
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Quick Reviews for September
I intended to read more books by English authors in September, but so far I’ve only managed to read and review Helen Zahavi’s Dirty Weekend, which provoked a scandal at the time of publication 30 years ago but seems to have been almost forgotten by now. However, I have O…
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#FridayFun: Back to Guess What? Bookshelves
We can never have too much of a good thing, right, us booklovers? Since I recently acquired 7-8 new books in one go at a literary festival (I was quite restrained), it’s clear that shelving them is never far from my mind.
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#SpinsterSeptember: Dirty Weekend by Helen Zahavi
Helen Zahavi: Dirty Weekend, Flamingo/Macmillan, 1991 I don’t remember coming across this novel in the early 1990s when I first came to study in England, but apparently it caused quite a bit of an uproar. It has been described as American Psycho for angry women, a black comedy,…
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#6Degrees of Separation September 2026
Yay, time for my favourite monthly meme, as hosted by Kate of Books are my Favourite and Best. Kate chooses a book as a starting point and then we link it to six other books of our choice – but this month we have to name our own starting point: the book we are currently reading…