From Headstones through Time, These Days
A round-up of my reading this third quarter of 2023, from Ian Rankin’s A Heart Full of Headstones to Lucy Caldwell’s These Days.
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From Gravel Heart to Simple Passion: books read in 2022
A reading diary entry about all the books I read in 2022. The first I completed was Gravel Heart, the last one was Simple Passion.
Old books – more than the sum of their parts
Sorting my mother’s old books I came across volumes remembered from when I was a child. They contained so much more than their own pages.
From Fortune Birds to Treacle Future
At last, a reading diary entry that stretches over six months and reaches from The Fortune Men to the Ministry for the Future
All the great books I read in 2020
A list of all the books I completed reading during 2020 with links to my relevant blog posts, to the authors and to other people’s reviews.
All the books I read 2019
A list of all the 50+ books I read 2019 together with their authors and links to authors’ websites or similar
Planet library – photo of the week
Planet library, this week’s photo, shows part of the new wing of Gothenburg City Library reflected in one of the half-mirrored lights hanging over the stairwell. Originally published 28 April 2014.
Book Boxes of Brussels – Les boites à livres
The book boxes – les boites à livres – are scattered across the city – they’re not always easy to find, but that makes looking for them a sport.
In praise of ABE Books
In which the arrival of a parcel from ABE Books (and a secondhand bookshop in Gothenburg) makes me happy for hours and breaks a writer’s block I’d run into.
Bibliomania in the family
Does bibliomania run in my family? My grandfather, Charlie Warwick, had the reputation of being a bibliomaniac – among other things.