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  "The Bone Season"   by   Samantha Shannon ,  is a brilliant read but a big book, It is a near future dystopia with elements ...

"The Bone Season"   by   Samantha Shannon ,  is a brilliant read but a big book, It is a near future dystopia with elements o...

I am constantly surprised at the number of people who do not not read books. They give excuses that they are too busy , they can’t concent...

I dreamt last night and just remember fragments , a deep water harbour (there was a reason for this but it's gone) , an Excel Worksheet...

It's that last day of January 2021 , and this will probably be my last post of January 2021. It is sort of strange to think that this w...

Surprisingly this month is already the highest monthly hit rate for a month since I started and effectively this seemed to be kicked of...

This morning I slept through , almost ten hours. It does help when you have switched off your alarm, but again it was a surprise and pr...

Although I've not really spoken much about "The Secret Commonwealth" by Philip Pullman , it's a 700 page tome and I a...

Well I've finished chapter one of "The Secret Commonwealth" and there's already been a murder, and I doubt that will ...

Yesterday I sort of didn't read, I had finished the 400 page "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins which I have passed on...

I am definitely becoming lazier and lazier. Also while I have a large CD and digital music collection, there are big chunks of it I ha...

Tonight I have watched a lot of TV but then thought it's time for bed, then suddenly remembered I had a delivery from Tesco as the...

The weather has been wonderful but one of the annoyances is the clouds of midges that I run into when I am walking, that end up in yo...

I've just finished "The Good Man Jesus and The Scoundrel Christ" by Philip Pullman and in the afterword he says he thin...

Just reading "Cold Hands by John Niven , a Christmas presnt from Fiona when I found two John Niven books I hadn't hear...

After waking up after a series of dreams that wer so mad I wouldn't know where to start describing them, and they are fading now. ...

Five years ago I published a pretty good post about getting older here   with one or two useful profundities (if that's a word, we...

As you know a lot of my writing and posting is influenced by the books I am reading. Recently all the books have been factual or biogr...

Dead Man Talking I can't believe it's four years since my first World Book Night. Then I had 50 Copies of  Philip Pulman...