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Shetland

It is really a bit late to recommend the BBC’s crime drama Shetland, based on one of the books in Ann Cleeves’ Shetland Quartet, as it will disappear off the iPlayer this evening. I only recently...

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind?

I am not sure whether to classify it as inspiring or guilt-inducing but there is something about the sight of a stack of unfinished books that prompts me to pick them up and press on until they are...

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A Right Herbert

Last night, following up a reference in another book, I decided I wanted to read George Herbert’s classic work on the role of a Christian minister, The Country Parson. This has been an influential work...

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Smoke and Mirrors

Jane and I recently caught up with the Easter special edition of Jonathan Creek. This detective drama, featuring Alan Davies as the eponymous hero, began in 1997 but has subsisted with occasional...

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Bass Instinct by Will Macmillan Jones

Bass Instinct I remember once reading a comic fantasy novel that was so egregious that the only two things stuck in my mind about it are a ludicrous passage punning on the word catastrophe and that,...

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A Good Endeavour

ITV is showing a new series of Endeavour, the story of Dexter’s Inspector Morse as he solves cases in the Oxford of 1965 and lays the foundations of his canonical career. I was impressed when I wrote...

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Diving into the Depths of All Delights

After seizing an opportunity to visit the wealth of Oxford Central Library yesterday, I am weighed down with riches. I’m halfway through one of the new books already and just about to dive into...

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Star Wars Day

May the 4th be with you!

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Reading Speed

My turbo reading speed is a less than impressive sounding 120 metres per hour. That is based on the total length of the pages I sped through yesterday lunchtime divided by the time taken. I was hoping...

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The Blogger’s Survival Guide by Lexie Lane and Becky McNeer

The Blogger’s Survival Guide I am a blogger and, if you care to look back, you will see that I have managed to pursue my blogging endeavour for over a decade. Therefore, I felt that I could approach...

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Cliffhanger

What a gripping episode of Doctor Who. It was one of those episodes where they seem to have written themselves into a hole with a story having ramifications for all of time and space; now we have to...

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Interesting it is

Did you learn anything new today? If not, how about the word “anastrophe”? Apparently this is the proper term for “Yoda speak”, when the little green Jedi master backwards or jumbled says his...

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Information at Your Fingertips (in Oxfordshire)

Following my recent discovery of the work of Duruflé, I took the opportunity to visit Oxford Central Library where, as hoped, I was able to find a copy of the score. I was not familiar with how the...

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With or Without the M

I’ve just watched the BBC’s documentary on the late Iain (M) Banks (Raw Spirit – only available until tomorrow evening). He published science fiction using his middle initial and his other works...

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Not Even Close Rhymes

Poetry is full of rhymes and near rhymes but some words call for “not even close” rhymes: There was a old lady from Milver Bedecked with gold, jewels and silver Fantastically wealthy Long-lived and...

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Did Those Feet?

One of the two congregational songs at yesterday’s wedding was Blakes Jerusalem. It does have a stirring tune and a magnificent reputation but I have always assumed that the simple answer to the...

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Stations of the Cross by Robert Dunn

Stations of the Cross Looking back at my recent reviews as part of the LibraryThing Early Reviewer programme, I am either a harsh reviewer or I have been unlucky with getting books that capture my...

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Unknowing Patience

I have recently re-read the devotional classic The Cloud of Unknowing and have to confess that most of it still seems obscure to me. Most if it passed me by leaving me apparently none the wiser but I...

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Introvert? No surprise there…

A link to an article on the Huffington Post, 23 Signs You’re Secretly an Introvert, caught my attention. The fact I scanned all the way through it and didn’t find much that surprised me probably tells...

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Feather and Bone by Gus Smith

Feather and Bone For some reason, I had expected this book to be about magic and wonder. Perhaps it was the blurb mentioning the child-savant, Isabel? There is magic but horror overwhelms any sense of...

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