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To Kill A Mockingbird
The last time I read the book I was about 11; a keen and precocious reader. But not keen or precocious enough — I remember very little about my first encounter with Scout and Atticus Finch. Some books should not be read too soon. I reread To Kill A Mockingbird this weekend in honour of the [...]
There’s no place like home, there’s no place like…
So, you travel to the wilds of Wales to talk about books, and when you return you discover that happiness can be found in your own backyard. In my case, happiness was found not only in Wales, but in Exmouth Market at Clerkenwell Tales, a heavenly bookshop a short hop from the Angel, Islington. It’s [...]
Hay, Here I Come
I’m going to Hay on Wye in half an hour. I’m not dressed and I haven’t decided what I’m going to talk about when I get there. There’s something about the Hay literary festival that makes you want to up your game, say something new and exciting, roll out a new theory. Maybe I’ll announce [...]
Chatroulette is messing with my head.
I was intrigued, mainly because it had such a cool French name. Only it doesn’t. It’s chat roulette. Like Russian roulette, only with chat. It started in Russia, appropriately, and even more appropriately, it works more or less like the game where you hold a gun to your head and repeatedly pull the trigger, only [...]
Queen of Teen? Make mine the Prince of Darkness.
I can keep quiet no longer. Despite the fact that some of my favourite authors have been nominated for the Queen of Teen award (“It’s glitzy, it’s glam, it’s the ultimate award for teen fiction!”), I have just looked at the website for the first time now. And while I passionately believe that anything that [...]
Can I write an entire post while on hold with the insurance company?
I bet I can. Santander might have a beautiful new logo, but the 48 hours during which they were supposed to get back to me expired about five days ago. In the meantime, I’ve phoned, got the wrong department (again). There’s no record of the claim number. Oh, wait, there is. No, it hasn’t [...]
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