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Kerry

A propos de ma bibliothèque

My library has been drastically reduced - in physical size - over the last two years. In June 2022 we moved to a modest 3 bed semi but we have spent the previous 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 and I have reduced this number to 1,737 (31st March 2023). Discarding books is not something that I can do in one fell swoop but I managed 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 had the pleasure of arranging my book cases and then my books in a fresh new location. After a few months of re-arranging furniture I even bought a new bookcase so I actually have spare capacity!

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 left 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

The Christmas Mystery par Jostein Gaarder

Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Marriages par Katie Roiphe

The Nonesuch par Georgette Heyer

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

The Chalet School and Cornelia par Katherine Bruce

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

Finding Myself par Olga Sushinsky

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

Dolly and the Bird of Paradise par Dorothy Dunnett

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

Small Things Like These par Claire Keegan

Maeve of the Chalet School par Helen Barber

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

Femina par Janina Ramirez

Slightly Foxed 77: Laughter in the Library Spring 2023 par Gail Pirkis

The Scribbler No. 23 March 2023: A retrospective literary review par Shirley Neilson

Murder on Black Swan Lane par Andrea Penrose

The Good, the Bad and the History par Jodi Taylor

Slightly Foxed: No. 22: Don't Give Up the Day Job par Gail Pirkis

Tom Lake par Ann Patchett

The Mystery of Mistletoe Hall par Benedict Brown

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, Louise Penny, Alan Plater, Oliver Postgate, Barbara Pym, Miss Read, Alexander McCall Smith, Jodi Taylor, Anthony Trollope, P. G. Wodehouse, Dornford Yates

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