So. Â New look, and finally a chance to sort out some of this blog. Â I’m looking back through a lot of what I wrote at the start, later on, and right now. Â And I realise that I’m starting to read my own blog as I read that of others: as an unfolding story. Blogs …
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Transitions: reading what we may become
Hello! New look. New functionality. New categories. Gosh. And lots of new to-do lists to make the site work the way I want it. So to take transitions as my theme today seems rather apt. Transitions. It’s part of a book title, and it’s a way of thinking about books you want alongside you when …
Application forms: reading the face of a generation
Long long ago (well, a few years now), the end of January would tick round, and I would start to receive lots of application forms. My notion for this series was learning from books: but why not other written words? My intention, as I write this, is to honour the people whose forms I read. …
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Lord Peter Wimsey: wearing your knowledge lightly
Did you ever have one of those books of quotations? Ones where you look up a quotation for the moment on whatever topic seems important. We had one. One of my grannies passed hers on to me. But probably my favourite source is Lord Peter Wimsey, gentleman detective. Wimsey was the creation of Dorothy L. …
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Alice meets Kafka: worlds turned upside down
There have been a few ups and downs here recently, mainly in the mummy plays nurse department. In the space of less than a week, two separate days off school, and a trip to A&E. My basis for operating is feeling a little shaky. I need a point of reference when life is turned upside …
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