Going off social media for Lent. May be back.
Lovely book. Reminded me how much I love the Thames, too.
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Saw a woman outside Hammersmith Broadway with a placard saying Make Britain Great Again and Vote Reform. Thought about shouting at her, snatching her placard and jumping on it. But
I gave her a long contemptuous stare as I passed. Disdain stops fascists, right?
Hope you both feel better soon
What very cool wallpaper!
After a hiatus, another episode of Eating the Detectives. What do the Slow Horses eat? (I know they're spooks, not sleuths, strictly speaking, but I'm obsessed. )
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After a hiatus, another episode of Eating the Detectives. What do the Slow Horses eat? (I know they're spooks, not sleuths, strictly speaking, but I'm obsessed. )
eatingthedetectives.wordpress.com/2025/02/18/t...
Remember Play for Today? Some great writers and actors on that strand. I'd love to see that make a comeback.
Looking forward to starting this, which has been on my tbr pile far too long.
Current reading.
Weird Fiction anthology from Penguin (I've been dipping into this now and again since November!) and about to start Joe Country by Mick Herron. May save it for train journey tomorrow.
Happy Imbolc
Amongst the acknowledgements at the end of London Rules, Mick Herron crediting John Finnemore for 'Yellow car'. Love it.
Wished I'd had London Rules with me when I met a friend for coffee in the Regent's Park. Meeting in a London park in winter always feels quite espionage-y.
Congratulations 🎊
Picked up The Book of Magic on impulse in the Gower Street Waterstones. It's an anthology, published by Penguin, of texts about magic - providing a fascinating historical survey of beliefs about and attitudes to the topic. The editor, Brian Copenhaver, introduces each reading beautifully.
Spook Street is the 4th in the Slow Horses series. And in this one Herron really teases the reader.
Fear for Miss Betony is a golden age detective story (takes place during WW2, but still GA) of the fair play type. Intriguing and beautifully written with a school setting, a fortune teller, and mystifying hints at arsenic poisoning.
My new reading strategy is alternating between a library book and a book from the TBR pile. It seems to be working. Only borrowing one book at a time from the library helps.
Finished Winter's Gifts by Ben Aaronovitch yesterday. One from my tbr pile I saved up for December - snow, ice, monsters and the FBI. Next from the library: Real Tigers by Mick Herron. Not very wintry, but gripping so far.
A winter tree for Yule/ Yalda
Wow, well done
New library book. So good. Laughed out loud several times already.
Not so much breaking the fourth wall as vaporising it with a photon blaster
When a book is also a beautiful object, it is even more of a treat to spend a winter afternoon reading.
Couldn't resist buying this beauty from Holdfast book boat in Leeds.
Really enjoyed this. Slow Horses by Mick Herron. And there's a whole series. Deserves the comparison with Le Carrè, but funnier, and better female characters.
Imagine how I felt, continuing to read on my way back from Leeds, and the new setting of Headingley appears. The book is stalking me.
Enjoying my new library book. Travelling from King's Cross after reading the first chapter was a little disturbing, though.
Enjoying my new library book. Travelling from King's Cross after reading the first chapter was a little disturbing, though.
