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The Chain Of Curiosity
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by Sphere,
(first published January 1st 2009)
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Those in search of trivia and light relief.
This is a collection of Toksvig's columns from the Sunday Telegraph, running from 19 June 2005 to 5 April 2009, each about a thousand words long. They are light fare, cheery-yet-grumbly ramblings, laced with benign humour:
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It won't surprise you to learn that as a Dane I have had a long association with [Lego]. (Indeed, if you have the average British person's knowledge of Denmark, you might be equally unmoved to learn that I was brought up by herrings and once met Hamlet's father.)
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I'm a big fan of Sandi Toksvig; I have read all her fictional works and never miss an episode of BBC Radio 4's News Quiz.
However I'm not a reader of the Sunday Telegraph and was surprised to learn that she pens a regular column. Around one hundred of these articles, written between 2005 and 2009, are reproduced in this book.
They are all beautifully random and meandering, always amusing and educational, some ephemeral and some thought-provoking. And if nothing else, the bo...more
However I'm not a reader of the Sunday Telegraph and was surprised to learn that she pens a regular column. Around one hundred of these articles, written between 2005 and 2009, are reproduced in this book.
They are all beautifully random and meandering, always amusing and educational, some ephemeral and some thought-provoking. And if nothing else, the bo...more
Entertaining ramblings of little import. It's a collection of columns from some newspaper or other, so all the chapters are quite short and self-contained. Lots of fun for those times when you only have five minutes of reading time.
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