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Kerry

A propos de ma bibliothèque

My library is diminishing - in physical size - daily. We are shortly (May 2022) moving to a modest 3 bed semi but we have spent the last 30-odd years living in large (at least 5 bedroomed) detached vicarages with book cases in every room (apart from the bathroom). The advent of ebooks has helped as there are not many books that I must have in paper format. Although, at the moment there seems to be over 1,900! Discarding books is not something that I can do in one fell swoop but I can manage a few every week. Some have been sold - my Chalet School hardback collection was more valuable than I thought - some have gone to friends or charity shops, and there were even a few that were in such bad condition that the paper recycling bin was the only place for them.

Trying to look on the bright side: I shall have the pleasure of arranging my book cases and then my books in a fresh new location.

Kevin the Vicarage Cat, recently a Cheshire Cat, is no longer with us and we miss him every day, but the new house is closer to a main road and is currently part of a building site, so it may be for the best that we will leave him in a peaceful country garden.

A propos de moi

That isn't me - it's Kevin the Vicarage Cat - now resting forever in the garden.

Lieu (géographique)

Cheshire, UK

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En cours de lecture

The Spring of the Ram par Dorothy Dunnett

Persuasion par Jane Austen

The Princess of the Chalet School par Elinor M. Brent-Dyer

The Poisoned Crown par Maurice Druon

The Finish: The Progress of a Murder Uncovered par Angela Elliott

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World par Peter Frankopan

The Last Lost Girl par Maria Hoey

The Irrationalist: The Tragic Murder of René Descartes par Andrew Pessin

Rewind par Denise Allan Steele

The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BCE – 1492) par Simon Schama

The Pillars of the Earth par Ken Follett

The Story of Egypt par Joann Fletcher

The King's Favorite par John Vance

A Soldier's Wife par Marion Reynolds

The Man on a Donkey par H. F. M. Prescott

A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years par Diarmaid MacCulloch

His Dark Materials: The Complete Collection par Philip Pullman

Finding Myself par Olga Sushinsky

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century par Barbara W. Tuchman

Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars par Francesca Wade

No Names to Be Given par Julia Brewer Daily

The Quantum Curators and the Missing Codex par Eva St. John

The Lincoln Highway par Amor Towles

Purple Hibiscus par Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Scribbler No. 21 July 2022: A retrospective literary review par Shirley Neilson

Slightly Foxed 75: Beside the Seaside Autumn 2022 par Gail Pirkis

Slightly Foxed: Light Reading: No. 17 par Gail Pirkis

Maeve of the Chalet School par Helen Barber

Days Like These: An alternative guide to the year in 366 poems par Brian Bilston

The Scribbler No. 22 November 2022: A retrospective literary review par Shirley Neilson

Femina par Janina Ramirez

The Little White Horse [Complete & Unabridged] par Elizabeth Goudge

Auteurs favoris

Kate Atkinson, Jane Austen, E. F. Benson, Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, John Buchan, Sarah Caudwell, E.M. Delafield, Charles Dickens, Dorothy Dunnett, Antonia Forest, Rumer Godden, Hergé, Georgette Heyer, C. S. Lewis, Hilary Mantel, Daphne du Maurier, L. M. Montgomery, Alan Plater, Oliver Postgate, Barbara Pym, Miss Read, Alexander McCall Smith, Anthony Trollope, P. G. Wodehouse, Dornford Yates

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