“My memories are like emeralds, clear and bright and true, but every new day crumbles like sand, and I can’t get a hold of it at all” (Osman 292). A welcome to both September’s blog (how is it month nine of 2026 already??) and to the fourth Thursday Murder Club series review, by Richard Osman. […]
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“I’ve known you for just over two weeks, and I’ve already been in a grave with a KGB colonel, I’ve seen a tiny old woman drug a Viking, and I’ve shared a bed with the most handsome man in Kent. For three or four years in the eighties I did a lot of magic mushrooms. […]
“you were an awful husband, but you always knew how to tell a good story” (Osman 27) Welcome to the second Thursday Murder Club book series review. I hope you might have had a chance to read the first book following my last blog on Richard Osman’s series. As the second book opens, we learn […]
ONE HUNDRED FLOWERS – GENKI KAWAMURA and AI MEMORIES Quotes- “Will the day come when artificial intelligence mimics the way we lose memory as well? Or will memory loss be considered an unnecessary function and thus never built in, even if AI is equipped to efficiently organise memories? (Kawamura 274) “Some say it is our […]
Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes book review and Quiz Answers “I see all those who men call monsters […] I see the men who call them that, call themselves heroes, of course” “Enough to know that the hero isn’t the one who’s kind or brave or loyal. Sometimes- not always, but sometimes- he is monstrous” […]
Book Review of Miranda Hart’s I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You. Quote: “We all have a story. I suppose that’s what our lives are made up of: beautiful, unexpected stories of joy and despair, darkness and light, strength and vulnerability, in all their weird and wonderful guises. I know that I would not have […]
Three Iconic Christmas Books “I have always thought of Christmas-time […] as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time” (Dickens,10) The year has a habit of arriving slowly, then gathering incredible momentum towards its grand finale of December. I want to share three iconic Christmas books from the 1800s, 1900s, and the 2020s. […]
The Instrumentalist by Hannah Constable, Book Review “The colours begin to layer until a landscape forms- green mountains and purple flowers, orange sunlight, bursts of white.” (17, Constable) Welcome to the November blog. November has that cosy marshmallow toasting, deep autumn feel. What better on the darker nights than to recommend a book to read? […]
If you love East Asian mythology and Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away, then you will love this book. Mina’s homeland has been ravaged by deadly storms for one hundred years. People believe it is because the Sea God is angry, so to appease him, a beautiful bride is thrown into the sea every year in the […]
‘I want to open a little bookshop – say, a tiny wooden cottage open six months a year where children (but also adults) can find a book that speaks to them, a magical place where you can admire the most wonderful sunsets on the Apuan Alps.’ This was part of what Alba Donati wrote […]