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M.C.’s 2024 Year in Books
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Dec 24
Here already? Everyone says February is the shortest month of the year, but December gives it a good run for its money, what with the Christmas parties and the shopping and the traditions.
Speaking of, we drew a traditional tea today – classic Earl Grey, no spices or anything fancy about it. Absolutely lovely. It was exactly what we needed at six this morning.
Here’s a traditional poem to go with
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| I have to confess, if you put a gun to my head and ordered me to retell any Greek myth, it wouldn’t be Psyche and Eros, if only because Til We Have Faces does it so beautifully. But I was intrigued by an author with the guts to step into that shadow. ...more | |
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| Mills (and Rosen) never disappoint. Rosen has somehow married golden age bloodless victims to Chandler's noir but less the sexism by the narrator and plus some excellent LGBTQIA+ history. His is my current favourite mystery series. ...more | |
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Book 11 in connections challenge- same publisher as previous book. I always enjoy Drabble. She spares no one in her observations. |
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“Perhaps there can be too much making of cups of tea, I thought, as I watched Miss Statham filling the heavy teapot. Did we really need a cup of tea? I even said as much to Miss Statham and she looked at me with a hurt, almost angry look, 'Do we need tea? she echoed. 'But Miss Lathbury...' She sounded puzzled and distressed and I began to realise that my question had struck at something deep and fundamental. It was the kind of question that starts a landslide in the mind. I mumbled something about making a joke and that of course one needed tea always, at every hour of the day or night.”
― Excellent Women
― Excellent Women
“My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream of consciousness' type and deal with an hour in the life of a woman at the sink.”
― Excellent Women
― Excellent Women
“I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it.”
― Jane and Prudence
― Jane and Prudence
“I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be caught with a teapot in my hand on every dramatic occasion.”
― Excellent Women
― Excellent Women
“They said this flat was converted but I think its still heathen”
― The Town in Bloom
― The Town in Bloom
