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Philip’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Philip’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Philip Cumberland
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The United Kingdom
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April 2012
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Killing Time in Cambridge
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Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe, a review.
Porterhouse Blue written by Tom SharpeIt is a little while since I have read one of Tom Sharpe’s books, several years in fact, Porterhouse Blue had been serialised in the television some years ago, after watching it, I had always intended to read the book.
Porterhouse is a fictional college within Cambridge University. The city of Cambridge is largely unchanged from the late 1960s when the book
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Perspective: it's all about replacing one thought with another:
"This slender volume punches well above its weight. Held within it are poetry and prose that encourage us to be kind to ourselves and use that kindness towards others. It’s also a book that speaks of the importance of the natural world, how we need to"
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| Acts of Convenience had sat on my TBR pile for a long time. I finally lifted it off the heap last week and started reading it. The Assisted Dying Bill passing through Parliament has given the story a timeliness that perhaps an earlier read wouldn’t h ...more | |
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| It isn’t unusual for human bones to be discovered during archaeological excavations, in this case, on the site of a proposed new farm shop, at Elderwick Hall, in whose grounds the discovery was made. The hall has had a long and troubled history, so f ...more | |
"This short novel taught me an unexpected lesson on my own fixed mindset.
Imagine an alien lifeform that sneaks into the mind of a child. What would you think? Well, I can tell you what I expected: brutal conflicts, life-threatening confrontations, mob" Read more of this review » |
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| Carol was a guest speaker at our local u3a meeting; she had been part of the team making a popular local radio program about a character living in the fens, Dennis of Grunty Fen. Carol was not only the sound recorder for the programme but she edits a ...more | |
| "Day Thirteen, Robin I was a dandelion seed freed from its stem. Fern picked up my mood and skipped around my feet as I hummed at the sink. The day passed lightly with no expectation of Ira to weigh it down or Jay to distract me, and the tarlings r..." Read more of this blog post » | |
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“she had been perfectly agreeable until I showed my face. That’s how it is with that kind of madness. Ninety-nine per cent of the time they seem perfectly sane.”
― The Last Detective
― The Last Detective
“She was like milk - too pale, too pure, too simple. She was made to be spoiled.”
― Fingersmith
― Fingersmith
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