“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.”
It happens very rarely but….Welcome to MY present World. Books what I have. Yes. Oakseshott. Also And Then there is the 18th c basket handle rapier that I’ve owned for 20 odd years. Also – the sword of a family member who died aged 20 in WW2. Normal service will be […]
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Told you the list was long. The late, great Leslie recommended this to me too. She once said that I was the only person she’d done this, so many times, for :o) ‘Earthing’ introduces readers to the landmark discovery that living in contact with the Earth’s natural surface charge – being grounded – naturally […]
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Two for the price of one I’ve read Marina Warner for a long time. These two books of hers are sort of special to me. BTW – Usual usual, I don’t agree with the mainstream history stuff but that does Not take away from her work. This unique study of the cult of the […]
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About a gajillion years ago, when I was a teenager, I was obsessed with the Gothic genre of books. From Wiki. Do it (research) yourself. The Castle of Otranto is a book by Horace Walpole first published in 1764 and generally regarded as the first gothic novel. In the second edition, Walpole applied the word ‘Gothic’ to the novel […]
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Odilon Redon’s c. 1914 oil painting of Pandora as an innocent Eve REwind. REpeat. Sorry to be SOOOOO Boring. I love Odilon Redon’s work. A banner/header or two above shows that. REwind. REpeat. The first story in the book was Pandora. SlickiWiki : Pandora
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Well. You can tell it Mercury REtrograde. Everything is a RE – RE: My EngLit Exam…a REally long time ago. This was one of the books we REad and got examined on. I REfuse to say anything about the REmarkable Actor heRE.
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Again with the glorious Dorothy Dunnett. Niccolò this time. With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccolò series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe. Among […]
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Y’all may get the wrong idea about me but…m’eh! It’s called RESEARCH! On my shelves, sitting right next to the earlier “Kinky Boots” book recommendation, is this one. The Kiss of the Whip, the Horrors of Centuries of Whipping. All those vicars who lived here before me will be shaking their heads in despair.
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Always the Bard! What, man! ’tis a night of revels: the gallants desire it. It took me a long time to read the book. And David Suchet a long time to film this episode. Even though Ms Christie had written it quite early in her career. She uses the Iago character So Very Well! It’s […]
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In the UK, the book is called Want to Play? Hide and Seek and Kill It was one of the very few modern “murder mystery” books that I really enjoyed reading. The slaying of an old couple in small town America looks like one-off act of brutal retribution. But at the same time, […]
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Oh. Another book from my shelves! These past few years have been quite intense for me. I knew it was all a test, a lesson that had to be learned. Just before I sit the final exam, I’m getting nervous. The Trickster comes with many names, faces, genders (!!) Is he still in charge? There […]
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If you ever want to have a bit of fun…Place this book in a prominent position on your shelves. Sit back and watch! I’ve seen many an eyebrow raised but not one single person has ever asked The Question. I know. Little things please little minds. Hehyo The Sex Life of the Foot and […]
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