“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
Yup. Usuals. Got it. This time (my bad) I’ve not read it all. The fricking book is HUGE. ‘Parently it was written for the Virgin Queen. Betty One. “Ah lucklesse babe, borne vnder cruell starre, And in dead parents balefull ashes bred, Full litle weenest thou, what sorrowes are Left thee for portion of […]
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I seem to have collected a very strange assortment of books on multiple subjects. It’s a real shame that so many around me see that as a reason to deride me. Sigh! ‘Snot gonna stop me tho’! At the crossroads of life, death and rebirth stands the Goddess Hekate. Honoured by men, women and […]
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Usual blahdeblah. Got it. Read it. Twice. This is a imho a sad book. Very few – if any – of these women had Happy lives :o( Reveals the inner qualities of 14 remarkable women who define style in ways that have lasted for generations. Witty and fascinating excursions into the worlds of Coco […]
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Yes. I have this one too. And I’ve read it. I just started watching Mr Levi and the grey cells went – Dink. Beneath the BS – here is the Languedoc. And her Sacred Geometry. Not bad for a Maths retard like me :o)
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In the classic Women Who Run With The Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes tells us about the ‘wild woman’, the wise and ageless presence in the female psyche that gives women their creativity, energy and power. For centuries, the ‘wild woman’ has been repressed by a male-orientated value system which trivialises women’s emotions. Using a combination of […]
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It’s very weird how one thing can lead to another! I started with Dante and Beatrice (Bee-a-tree-chay…oops. Done that one.) and ended up in the Babylonian Captivity. Shrug. Wiki : Dante Wiki : Beatrice Portinari O all ye passing by along Love’s way, attend a while and see if there be sorrow such as […]
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In Sussex having an adventure with a Vampyre. “It was a ship which is associated with the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared.” Jeremy Brett was an awesome Holmes too. The Greatest Story Never Told?
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DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE? “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?” “I wonder if the snow loves the […]
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Sergeant Hamish Macbeth is alarmed to receive a report from a woman in the small village of Cronish in the Scottish Highlands. She has been brutally attacked and the criminal is on the loose. But upon further investigation, Hamish discovers that she was lying about the crime. So when the same woman calls him back […]
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I was given this book as a gift. It’s a bit tatty now yet still loved. It’s the kind of thing a pathetic, worthless HOUSEWIFE enjoys. Jane Brocket delights in domesticity. Lively, curious and creative, she takes inspiration from her surroundings, from art, literature and nature and, through the gentle arts of knitting, baking […]
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I have just about ALL of Christina Strutt’s books. This is a fave. Shoot – long overdue a reread. I’m long overdue another reminder of how and why and ……..:o) Saving the planet for future generations is a laudable aim, but why wait when quite small changes to your lifestyle can make a big […]
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Mary Renault is a fine writer. I’ve loved her books. My sadness, now, is that I can no longer read them with the same joy and excitement :o( In the first novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault vividly imagines the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic leader whose drive and ambition created […]
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