Books

Books I’m reading, books I’ve read, books I’ve lost, books, books, books, books…

Books by Lois

A great read! Yay Graham Norton!

I mentioned not very long ago that I had just started reading ‘Holding’ by Graham Norton, and it was looking good – I bought it and sat in the bookshop café and lost myself for half an hour in it. I remarked when I wrote about it that I seemed to have found a book […]

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Are books always best?

There are lots of answers, and different ways of answering the question of ‘are books always best’? And the answers to most of those various questions, would mostly be YES! However, what I’m pondering on is whether the original book is always better than the dramatic production – play, film, TV programme/series. If I think […]

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Back to the Far Distant Oxus

I’d forgotten about this book, and this poem: As a child I was a great reader, and as a child I was a great story-teller, even before I could write any of my tales down. I haunted the library, reading my way through all the books in the children’s section before borrowing my mum’s ticket […]

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