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Reading diary

This page collects all my Reading diary posts. Most are a series of short reviews of the books I’ve been reading, but some are otherwise.

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Wild Girls on the Salt Path

6 April, 20226 April, 2022

A reading diary update – a wild selection of brief salty reviews of 5 of the 14 titles I’ve completed reading this first quarter of 2022.

Categories Reading diary, Reviews
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To Milkman from The Mirror: books read in 2021

5 January, 20225 January, 2022

A reading diary entry about all the books I read in 2021. The last one I completed was Milkman, the first was The Mirror and the Light.

Categories Reading diary, Reviews
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Liminal places: on the threshold – a reading diary

9 December, 20218 December, 2021

Liminal places are the spaces between, whether libraries or buildings, corridors or dark woods; threasholds we must cross in order to grow.

Categories At the Quill, Reading diary
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Call it Huxley in a Comedy of Manners

14 August, 202111 August, 2021

A reading diary entry reviewing This Much Huxley Knows, Kalla det vad fan du vill and Love in a Cold Climate and presenting them as Comedies of Manners.

Categories Book Review, Reading diary, Reviews
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A Mediterranean Quintet: Call Me to A Village

25 March, 202124 March, 2021

A Mediterranean quintet of books, and a few more. A reading diary round-up of the books I completed in the first 8 weeks or so of 2021.

Categories Book Review, Reading diary, Reviews
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How Do You Read Poetry? A Village Life

10 March, 2021

Reading A Village Life by Louise Glück, I’m consciously trying to read it in a different way from the way I usually read poetry books.

Categories Reading diary, Reviews
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Strategies strained and tactics dodgy: a reading diary

21 January, 202120 January, 2021

Strategies and tactics I employed to keep my reading resolution last year – and a review of some of the books I read in the last quarter of 2020

Categories Book Review, Reading diary, Reviews
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Historical fiction by Warlight: The Moon’s Account

14 August, 202116 September, 2020

Historical fiction in the third quarter of 2020 – a reading diary entry covering four historical novels and a three other books.

Categories Reading diary, Reviews
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Fat books take longer to read – a reading diary entry

2 August, 202016 July, 2020

Fat books take longer to read, disrupting your reading resolutions – but they can be glorious: a reading diary entry. White Teeth and Wolf Hall.

Categories Reading diary, Reviews
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M-m-my corona reading – a reading diary entry

4 August, 20209 April, 2020

My corona reading – about the 7 books I read in February and March, bringing to 14 the number of books read in the first quarter of 2020

Categories Reading diary, Reviews
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Most popular posts published in 2021

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Call it Huxley in a Comedy of Manners
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City of Lights, libraries and bridges – back to Sundsvall
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Doggerland to Aeyland and back in time for tea
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Pilgrim, Riddly and setting free the turtles
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Shanks’s pony is getting tired

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Brussels parakeets make the world a better place – or don’t
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The Gothenburg disco fire – 20 years on
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When did they begin, the Beguine?
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Princess Uncumber – a retold tale
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Why I really don’t like Kindle
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Book boxes of Brussels – Les boites à livres
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