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Part-time librarian’s assistant, full-time bookworm 📚🐾 Lover of cats, coffee, and classic novels. When I’m not in the stacks, I’m in my allotment, coaxing veggies to grow (with mixed success). 🌱📖💭 #BookishLife”
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I’ve never heard this quote before. Just lovely.
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I love this memoir- so wonderful.
I’m currently reading Play it As It Lays. I’ve never read her fiction before, so it will be interesting to see what it is like.
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I didn’t think Intermezzo was as good as her other novels. I felt like you it was a bit bloated.
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James Baldwin is really good. I’ve read Dark Days and it’s fantastic.
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I much preferred it. I don’t think protagonists of a novel have to be likeable but I find it more enjoyable reading experience when the characters are.
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Love the one of the cat sat in the sink. 💕 🐈⬛
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I’m feeling rather upbeat at the moment with spring in the air, so it’ll be lovely to have a nice relaxing day curled up with this book.
It will be interesting reading something from when she was a younger woman.
Ive ordered Notes to John but feel conflicted about reading it.
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I found the characters far more likeable in Conversations With Friends
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I much preferred it to Conversations with Friends. 😊
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I haven’t, the book has been on my list to read for a while 📚
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I’d highly recommend it. 📚
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I love this book, the chapter on stone was so interesting. Beautiful cover too. Have you read Peter Ross’ other book ‘A Tomb With A View’? I listened to it on radio 4 and it was great
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Cat seems happy kitty to me. The man would be scratched to smithereens if not.
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Tulip Fever sounds an interesting read! Did you end up watching the movie adaptation too?
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The characters feel so rich and complex—Dorothea’s idealism, Casaubon’s rigidity, Rosamund’s charm (and flaws). And I’ll have to check out that Substack—sounds like a great guide to Tolstoy. I’m currently doing a readalong to To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf! 😀
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One chapter a day of War and Peace sounds like a fantastic pace!
It’s on my TBR pile.
Middlemarch has been incredible so far—such a rich and thoughtful story. What do you love most about it?
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I love this book. It makes me feel desperately sad but the relationship between Ludwig and Mrs. Palfrey is so well drawn.
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I’m reading The Cat Inside by William S. Burroughs. So movingly and evocatively written. 🐈🐈⬛🐈
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I’m sorry it’s closing down - what a shame!