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A reader's footprints

Tag Archives: Sylvia Townsend Warner

April Acquisitions

May 7, 2012

Towards the end of March, I received an email from one of my favourite online booksellers for new and used books saying that they …

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Three’s a crowd : Enter Elizabeth Wade White ~ Letters Between STW & VA (part 3)

February 7, 2012

After leaving the blissful days of Frankfort Manor behind, Warner and Valentine resumed back their previous days of village life, …

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A house to live and to love in ~ Letters between STW & VA (part 2)

February 1, 2012

STW Little Zeal, 22 August 1931 My Dearest Love, After I had finished my letter to you last night I …

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“We had liked, now we loved….” ~ Letters between STW & VA (part 1)

January 31, 2012

VA Chaldon, 13 October 1930 I meant to give you this today – anyhow it is obviously yours because your …

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“Love amazes, but it does not surprise.”

January 29, 2012

Love amazes, but it does not surprise. I woke to daylight and saw her standing by the bed, looking down …

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A thought on death

January 20, 2012

A thought on death. I can reconcile myself to believing in a time when I shall not make tea, listen …

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The Plan (or something like that….)

January 17, 2012

Looking at how my TBR pile is getting way out of control, I think it’s time I come up with …

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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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