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A reader's footprints

~ journeying through books and foreign lands

A reader's footprints

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7 x 7 Award

May 1, 2012

Kathy, from Catching Happiness, has recently tagged me for this meme, and though I feel that I probably don’t have much …

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The Long and The Short of Muriel Spark

April 29, 2012

I have just managed to finish a novel and two of Spark’s short stories today, and hopefully will be able …

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Friday Feature : On The Company By Which Our Books Keep

April 28, 2012

“Both in my library at home and in my bookshops I have a hard time hewing to any strict philosophy …

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Stopping to smell the flowers…..

April 26, 2012

May 7th.–I love my garden. I am writing in it now in the late afternoon loveliness, much interrupted by the …

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Friday Feature : On Reading At Meal-Times

April 20, 2012

“…. all fellow readers who have ever taken a book along to a humble restaurant will understand my saying that …

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Has anyone been checking out from any of these…..

April 18, 2012

Central Public Library, Vancouver These are just a few of the beauties included in the 25 Most Beautiful Public Libraries in …

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Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym

April 16, 2012

Some tame gazelle, or some gentle dove; Something to love, oh! something to love. Thomas Haynes Bayly This book was to …

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Friday Feature : On Reading In Bed

April 13, 2012

“Hundreds and thousands, possibly millions, of people every night in England read something in bed. They say nothing about it …

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A Book… A Place… A Time… (Llangolen)

April 10, 2012

The book : The Ladies of Llangolen  – A Study in Romantic Friendship The Ladies of Llangolen : A Study …

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Friday Feature : On How to Care for Books (#4)

April 6, 2012

Having already learned what the first four elements considered to be “Enemies of Books” as listed by William Blades are, …

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♣ Hello….

"That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing."
(Anthony Trollope ~ An Autobiography)

♣ On These Days

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♣ Muriel Spark Reading Week

♣ Currently Reading

The Warden by Anthony Trollope

♣ Dipping into

♣ Recently Read

♣ On the nightstand

A Stranger In Spain (H.V. Morton) ~ No Name (Wilkie Collins) ~ Desire (John Eldredge) ~ Some Tame Gazelle (Barbara Pym) *done!* ~ A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens) ~ Short Stories of Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) ~ The English House (Clive Aslet)

♣ Listening To :

The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders
The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco

♣ Done Listening

3/5

Rapture

3.5/5

Dr. Seuss - The Lorax

4/5

The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox

5/5

4.5/5

Cold Comfort Farm

4/5

The Man In The Queue by Josephine Tey

3.5/5

The Go Between by L.P Hartley

4/5

3/5

The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

3/5

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