Recent acquisition for our personal library.
2020 rating: ★★★★★
I loved this modern Hardy adaptation first published as a serial in The Guardian 2005-07.
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Recent acquisition for our personal library.
2020 rating: ★★★★★
I loved this modern Hardy adaptation first published as a serial in The Guardian 2005-07.
Poor Tracy! 🤣
Oh no, I now want to immediately go to this bookshop and spend a large amount.. 😬
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It is a quiet weekday signing. Fortunately one couple need six signed copies. Browsing to pass the time, I am again mistaken for a bookseller.
'Could you help me with the Paddington Bear books? I have a granddaughter in Perth.'
Of course I can. We find the adventure that seems exactly right, and then the lady asks me how long I have worked here. I explain that I don't - that I've simply been signing my book.
[Rubicund Radical Bookshop offers] the second transcendent moment of the tour, sipping coffee and seated by a shop window displaying a Robert Mapplethorpe photography book, as a sense of hope grows in me that there really could be a radical future with acceptance of everyone for whoever they may be, and quality cake for all. Rather than being a champagne socialist, I may become a Battenberg Bolshevik.
Dangerous for the wishlist...
panOMG, this was so unbelievable, so overwrought. And the author couldn‘t stop writing about nipples. 🙄At least I‘ve knocked off one #readyoirkobo for September. But don‘t waste your time on this one. @CBee
pickFinding a Penelope Lively in a charity shop that I haven't read is a bonus, especially when it proves to be another beautifully told story of lifes traumas. Frances is grieving the death of her celebrity husband. The picture of grief is very good, also the relationship with her friend, her sister in law, and adopted children. Lively is, in my view, one of the greats, and I will be on the search for more.
