“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.”
IN DECEMBER 1926 Agatha Christie disappeared in bizarre circumstances from her home in southern England. The discovery of the crime writer’s abandoned car led to the biggest manhunt in British history for a missing person. Eleven days later she was found in a northern spa town claiming to be the victim of amnesia. Until the […]
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Strange but true! Did y’all know that Clara Miller was not only an Irish “Seer” but she named her third child Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller? Agatha Miller married, then was divorced by, Archibald Christie who preferred his fancy-pants mistress, Nancy Neele. Clara home-schooled Agatha and nurtured her daughter’s love of literature. And from there – […]
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The White Crow, one-time Soldier-Scholar of the Invisible College and a practitioner of Hermetic science and magic, and Baltazar Casaubon, architect and lover, a man not too particular about his personal hygiene, are two of Mary Gentle’s finest creations. The worlds they stride across range from the Renaissance city where aristocratic rats rule the human […]
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According to SOMEthing (?) Tick Tock? I WANNA BREAK FREE? Staying ALIVE?
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Verb. kiss the gunner‘s daughter. (archaic, idiomatic, navy) To be flogged or beaten while restrained over a cannon. I’m being kind to myself today. I’m halfway through a list of 50 or so Greek and Roman names that I’m researching (ouch) and have decided to STOP! This story is probably my favourite Ruth Rendell Mystery. Several reasons […]
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This is the very last thing that I should be watching right now! Triggered? Me? YES! When I lived in Army Quarters and was known just as “Wife of…” – as all wives were – I used to casually leave my copy of Mary Wollstonecraft’s book A Vindication of the Rights of Women lying about. […]
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Realist revolutionary: The painter who brought the heavenly down to earth Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), was always a name to be reckoned with.Notorious bad boy of Italian painting, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial: Violent in temper, precise in technique, a creative master, and a man on the […]
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This book has driven me mindless for the past couple of weeks. Can I find it anywhere here? I know that I bought it. And read it. Bloody book faeries. Moving things again. Mumble. Grumble :o( Anyway. Today I remembered the name of it and went on Amazon. A Mayfair address; the title of ‘purveyor […]
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Because I was so dithery yesterday about the audiobook to listen to (Death of a Witch won!) I decided today to take my ipad, go to audiobooks, shut my eyes and do the uppy downy game. A bit like stick a pin in the map but bash a finger on the screen. I have 333 […]
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I’m dithering in my choice of audiobook to listen to tonight in bed. Prankster or Witch ? Witch or Prankster? Mmmmmmmmmn.
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Which – in my world – means reading something completely different. I’ve not picked up the biography of Malory (in the picture above) for years. But, for some strange reason, I felt like dipping into it today. Y’all know what Friday is, yes? POETS DAY Confession. I struggle with Le Morte d’Arthur almost as much […]
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I might’ve found a Brand New Obsession. Rewind. I HAVE found a……etc :o) P.S. This is called your SHADOW Side in psychowhateverpy. I Fully Embrace Mine. A little bit of dark in the light – this is Real life !
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