Mainly books, but also other pleasing things
Posted in Book Reviews, Crime Fiction, Short Stories on Feb 20th, 2010
Not Safe After Dark and Other Works is a collection of twenty short stories by Peter Robinson. There are three Inspector Banks stories, one of which Going Back is a novella that had not been published before. The other stories are varied in length, technique and style. Of them all I prefer the Inspector Banks [...]
Posted in Books, Crime Fiction, Fiction, Memoirs, Non-fiction on Nov 12th, 2009
I’ve read a few books recently and not written about them.They’re library books and due back very soon so I thought I’d jot down a few notes about each one. Not in the Flesh by Ruth Rendell (audio book) Dave and I listened to this in the car whilst travelling to Northumberland and back. This [...]
Posted in Crime Fiction, Non-fiction, Religion, Sunday Salon on Nov 1st, 2009
I thought I would remind myself of the concept of the Sunday Salon. So I’ve copied this from the Sunday Salon home page - imagine yourself in some university library’s vast reading room. It’s filled with people–students and faculty and strangers who’ve wandered in. They’re seated at great oaken desks, books piled all around them, and they’re all [...]
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