Vintage Reads

Tuesday, 11 February 2025

The God of the Woods

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  "Sixty-five percent of people, said Calvin, "are less than twenty feet from a trail when they first begin to feel disoriented....
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Saturday, 20 July 2024

Outback Noir

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" You wouldn't want to be lost out there for too long.  It's the panic that gets you.  Everything starts to look the same After...
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Sunday, 28 April 2024

Let's Get Physical

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  All right ladies. Are you ready? Let's go! I enjoyed Danielle Friedman's account of the rise of women's exercise classes  Let...
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Friday, 1 March 2024

Breakfast at Tiffany's

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I enjoyed Jenny Jackson's PIneapple Street and its 'old money' Brooklyn setting.  I was also intrigued by its epitaph - a quote ...
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Wednesday, 9 August 2023

Penguin Orange Classics - The Joy Luck Club

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And I am sitting at my mother's place at the mah jong table, on the East where things begin. Can't believe it is almost 35 years sin...
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Friday, 31 March 2023

Real Tigers (Slough House #3)

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I raced through the Slough House series by Mick Herron after reading an interview with one of my favourite writers, Mary Lawson, who recomme...
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Saturday, 14 January 2023

Lucy by the Sea

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Easily the best novel I read last year was Elizabeth Strout's Lucy by the Sea.   I love Lucy's gorgeous narrative voice.  I think th...
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