Month: June 2018
Excuse me if I’m having a heart attack …
Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1768357/excuse-me-if-i-m-having-a-heart-attack ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The ensuing discussion on BookLikes:
Read MoreBook Recs Solicited: Freedom and Future Library
You’d have to be living under a rock buried somewhere halfway down to the center of the earth in order not to be aware that in recent years our beautiful world has been shaken up by a number of crises the likes of which I, at least, have not experienced in my entire lifetime — […]
Read MoreBook Gifts
They’re here and looking phantastic — thank you so much, Tigus!! Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1766126/post
Read MoreFootball / Soccer World Cup 2018 – Preparations
Let the games begin … Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1765883/post
Read MoreElizabeth Gaskell: Cousin Phillis
Gaskell Does Austen — With a Twist Facially, the story is your basic Austen setup with the sole difference apparent at first sight that the narrator is a male observer of the events (which incidentally is unusual for Gaskell, too) and there is no HEA — the ending is open. However, this wouldn’t be Gaskell if […]
Read MorePublic Spirit
The Guardian is one of my go-to sources for international news; refreshingly, they’ve so far refrained from putting up a paywall. I’d like their content to be able to continue being freely available on the web, but more importantly, I think these days it’s more important than ever to support journalists and media organizations that […]
Read MoreStay Inside Festival!
“The Books” should be featured larger of course, and personally I can do without video games — but other than that, seeing as it’s raining outside … Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1765394/post
Read MoreHmmm …
Need to review a literary novel? Just use my handy-dandy Literary Novel Review Generator! — Lona Manning (@LonaManning) June 1, 2018 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1763226/hmmm
Read MoreDennis Wheatley / J.G. Links & Q. Patrick: Crime Dossiers & Crime Files
Do-It-Yourself Crime Solving from the Golden Age of Mysteries You’d think that I get to read more than enough files (though not typically crime files) in my day job — but gluttons for punishment that some of us mystery lovers are, there’s nothing we like […]
Read MoreSummer of Spies – My Tracking Post
Memorial Day Weekend — Labor Day 2018 Read, to Date: Emmuska Orczy: The Scarlet Pimpernel (revisited on audio, narrated by Stephen Crossly) Agatha Christie: N or M? (revisited on audio, narrated by Samantha Bond) John Le Carré: Smiley’s People (revisited on audio, narraed by Michael Jayston) Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1762812/summer-of-spies-my-tracking-post
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