Tag: fiction
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Book Asks
Authors on social media were playing this game where they would post an image of twenty questions about books, and promise they would answer 1 question from the list for each time someone “liked” their post. I’m not an author and nobody on BlueSky cares what books I like, but this looks like a fun… Read.
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de-fence-strate
My Darling B has a garden in the back yard with a fence around it. As fences go, it’s pretty basic: a series of 4×4 posts set in the ground about four feet apart, with galvanized hardware cloth stapled to the outsides of the posts. The bottom edge of the hardware cloth is buried about… Read.
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books galore
“Spook Street” is the fourth novel in the ‘Slow Horses’ series of spy thrillers by Mick Herron. The story circles around David Cartwright, a top-tier spook of the Cold War era, as he slides into senility at about the same time that an unknown agency decides to take him out of the picture. I like… Read.
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books books books
It took me a while, but I finally finished reading “Lord Jim” by Joseph Conrad. And when I say “it took me a while,” I mean it took me years. As in, decades. I’m pretty sure I tried to read it for the first time forty years ago after I read “Heart of Darkness.” Probably… Read.
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