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Sunday Salon: Hunting Female Historians
I’m going to experiment with my Sunday Salon post. For the next month I am going to use it as an opportunity to write about the reading experience, libraries, bookshops etc rather than a list of what...
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Belated Sunday Salon: My First 24 Hour Readathon
So, I am taking part in the 24 hour readathon on 21APR2012. It's the fourth time I have taken part in this type of event. Below is an amalgamation of the live blogging posts I put up on 24OCT2009 (on...
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The Sunday Salon: A Day of Contemplating Libraries
Yesterday I went to an all day conference about 18th century libraries.... Continue reading →
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The Sunday Salon: Ms 2012 Meets Miss 2004
As those who follow the RSS feed and anyone who’s seen one of my posts of ‘book reviews posted this week’ will already know, I am slowly but surely posting all my old book reviews from 2004-2011 from...
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The Sunday Salon: Best Reads Of 2012 So Far….
I've been wanting to do a six month review of reading since the end of June but it's only now I've found time to make a mug of green tea and have a think about 2012's reading so far... Read more...
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The Sunday Salon: Nine Years of Bookcrossing
It was with a little jolt of shock this week that I realised that tomorrow is my bookcrossing anniversary and I've been doing it for nine years. Wow. Looking back, bookcrossing was a huge chunk of my...
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The Sunday Salon: Six Months In A Book Club…
Perhaps we've had a bad run or I am too picky a reader but it feels like eliminating popular or classic books by default is a perverse way to find a good read... Continue reading →
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The Sunday Salon: Why I Read The Classics
Why are you reading the classics? - asks the Classics Club of its members this month. I take a historian's view, after all the novel is only a couple of hundred years old... Continue reading →
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The Sunday Salon: A Year In Reading, 2012
Having shared my lists of favourite contemporary fiction, older/classic fiction and non-fiction books read this year, I'm sitting here with a mug of rather good coffee and a notebook to think about my...
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TSS: Zoladdiction and Re-Assessing Authors
This is Emile Zola as you rarely see him. It's a photograph by Etienne Carjat dating from about 1865, six years before he began his massive twenty novel series, Les Rougon-Macquart. I went looking for...
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