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cover comparison: <br> bellman & black <br>by diane setterfield 26 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Odin's crows and myth and the intersection of a very ordinary and manageable world with an unfamiliar and frightening one are a few of the things that have kept me turning pages in this long-awaited s...
book lust: neil gaiman's <br> the ocean at the end of the lane <br> deluxe edition 6 Jul 2013 | 05:04 am
Many of you are reading it and talking about it. I'm reading it. But do you love it this much? "There will only be 2,000 copies printed of this limited, numbered edition of The Ocean at the End of the...
the beekeeper's bible: <br> bees, honey, recipes and <br>other home uses 30 Jun 2013 | 11:24 pm
The Beekeeper's Bible is one of the most lovely books I have seen in a while, and certainly the most attractive amongst the other books I have on beekeeping. Unlike those I have read on the subject th...
the short of it 25 Jun 2013 | 11:26 pm
So many items in social media right now are selling us on summer reading that it all becomes white noise after a while. Overwhelming and informed by too many widely divergent standards of taste. But "...
excellent women <br> by barbara pym 9 Jun 2013 | 10:06 pm
Excellent women. Unseen by many, especially men. Useful to many unencumbered as they are by families or love lives of their own. The rock of the church and less practical friends and acquaintances. Th...
jane and prudence <br> by barbara pym 2 Jun 2013 | 08:15 pm
Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates are unlikely friends. Jane is firmly ensconced in the responsibilities of middle age as mother to a daughter preparing for university and muddling through her duties ...
barbara pym reading week 20 May 2013 | 03:27 am
Ideas about easing my way back into regular posting present themselves from time to time but never seem to take hold the way I intended. But hope springs eternal and the Pym love of above event sponso...
the estrogen collection 29 Apr 2013 | 03:04 am
Last weekend, Teresa and Thomas and I went to a used book sale at a local girl's school. Annual event. Very large. Jam packed with tables of books that Thomas contended made him start menstruating. Bu...
on cinderella 15 Apr 2013 | 04:44 am
The recent Maria Tatar translations of the classic tales of the Brothers Grimm in The Grimm Reader and Phillip Pullman's artful retellings of the same in Fairy Tales From the Brothers Grimm have occup...
the happy life. <br> the search for contentment in the modern world ;-) <br> by david malouf 7 Apr 2013 | 11:19 pm
The seeming cultural imperative of happiness. The draw to it or a creation of it as strong in westernized culture as the draw to extroversion. The discussion of happiness, one would assume a preoccupa...
