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Lucia

17 October, 201610 October, 2016 CalmgroveLeave a comment

winter Lucia over-wintering in Fishguard harbour, Pembrokeshire

Travel

16 October, 201610 October, 2016 CalmgroveLeave a comment

Gallery of photo reposts with a travel theme: train, bike, digger, van and carousel

In praise of innocence

Henry James: Daisy Miller: A Study. An International Episode. Four Meetings. Penguin English Library 2012 (1879) First published in magazine form in 1878, Daisy Miller is a novella that must strike modern readers very differently from their counterparts a hundred and forty years ago. Now, the very idea of a young lady seeking the company […]

Literary bookshelves

You may remember among the photos I included in a piece about Lamb House in Rye, East Sussex, the picture of some bookshelves as Henry James might have seen them (sadly the books pictured are not James’ originals). I thought I might also share with you some images of other bookshelves I saw on a […]

Touching base

Just touching base (and touching bass too, as it were) after a busy week of books and music has meant fewer blog posts than usual here. As you can see from the header photo Crickhowell in southeast Wales has just had its fourth literary festival over the last week and a bit, and I’ve been […]

Pre-owned, pre-loved

Inverted Commas 4: Used Books I have always enjoyed reading, but I’ve never been sure how to select appropriate material. There are so many books in the world — how do you know which one will match your tastes and interests? Thus writes the titular character in chapter 32 of Gail Honeyman’s excellent Eleanor Oliphant […]

Something witchy this way comes

Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea series is like Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, one of those secondary worlds that I’ve found I’ve needed to revisit every so often. I’m not the only one, I know, that — however familiar the outline plots — discovers something new each time I step into those universes, whether it’s […]

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