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Guest post: autumn adventures in DC and Shenandoah | 26 Months in DC
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26 Months in DC. Guest post: autumn adventures in DC and Shenandoah. September 7, 2015. Welcome to my first ever guest-post on 18 months in DC! This was written for me by my good friend Kate (who also writes a great blog about books, over at http:/ bloggingaroundmybookcase.com/. About her ‘vacation’ with us last autumn. And it would be excellent background music for the rest of this blog. Other highlights of DC were canoeing on the Potomac in the autumn sunshine, watching the Washington Wizards in action...
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Going home | 26 Months in DC
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26 Months in DC. June 4, 2016. Also, in happier news, I’m now an aunt for the first time, and R’s sister is also expecting a baby this year – so it’s really exciting to be moving closer to family. 8217; people exclaim, and it’s really hard to answer ‘maybe not…’. Because as anyone who has moved countries knows, there’s lots to do! Apart from the packing, there’s all the financial things to sort out – we want to leave in good standing after all! 8211; written by someone who decided to return home on one!
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Bookfort! |
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E and I recently redecorated. It involved taking all the books off the shelves and painting behind the bookcases. So…all the books were just lying there…and it just seemed like the right thing to do! Perfect for curling up with a good book. Out of the Sun, Robert Goddard. Way Down Dark, JP Smythe →. 9 thoughts on “ Bookfort! 14 September 2015 at 8:07 am. Liked by 1 person. 14 September 2015 at 8:38 am. Liked by 1 person. 14 September 2015 at 3:07 pm. You must leave them like that! Enter your comment here.
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Two Hoots and the King, Helen Cresswell |
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Two Hoots and the King, Helen Cresswell. So now you are a bit wiser.” Then all the owls laugh at them and the yellow bird flies off. Now, you’ll agree that this is a morally ambiguous story. Is the message that only the strong survive so it is ok to peck the heart out of the weak while you can? Maybe it is a warning about following false messiahs? Perhaps the book seeks to show the dangers of blindly trusting authority? 8220;You know what you learnt? Canaries are fuckers.”. 18 March 2015 at 10:41 pm.
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The challenge |
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This site began as a New Year challenge in 2015 to read all the unread books on my bookshelf – all 250 of them! Well, I didn’t quite manage to read them all; life intervened, as it so often does. But now in New Year 2017 I have decided to pick the blog up again- I won’t be forcing myself to read all the books on my bookcase (E’s vast collection of Star Trek books have defeated me! But I will still capture the best and worst of books I read this year! And yet, I have to confess that my book reading does n...
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Evidence in Camera, Constance Babington Smith |
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Evidence in Camera, Constance Babington Smith. I’m not generally one for military history, but this is a little gem of a book. It charts the development of photographic intelligence in World War II and is chock-full of anecdotes that take it beyond the usual “and then we went here and killed people, then we developed new ways of killing people, and then we went and killed more people” narratives of military history. There is another great section on how the interpretation of photographs taken by bombers ...
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Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones |
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Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones. Altogether a brilliant read – but keep the tissues handy. The autobiography of FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper, Scott Frost. Well, that was February! 13 thoughts on “ Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones. 28 February 2015 at 5:10 pm. Sounds like a great read! I remember hearing about it when it first came out, but it kind of slipped off the radar somehow. 1 March 2015 at 12:16 pm. Well worth putting back on the radar. And it is only a skinny bit of a novel, so will take no time to read! I love ...
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An Expert in Murder, Nicola Upson |
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An Expert in Murder, Nicola Upson. The book is a deeply satisfying dive into 1930s theatreland, a great mystery to puzzle through and a great read. The book opens with Josephine Tey, murder mystery novelist, (a character based on one of the pseudonyms of Elizabeth Mackintosh) on a train down from the Highlands to London where her hit play. Is entering its final week on stage. She’s going to a meeting to discuss the future of the play but, well, events rather overtake her. An Expert in Murder. You are com...
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Field Guide: Rocks and Minerals, Bell and Wright |
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Field Guide: Rocks and Minerals, Bell and Wright. I’ll put the answers right at the bottom, and then you can let me know how you did. Won’t that be fun? You can also ask any questions you may have about rocks in the comments, and I will do my best to crystallise my knowledge into an answer (or just ask E). Let’s rock on! For those of you who want to do a bit of research before attempting the quiz, the back of the book promises. Full-colour photographs of over 400 rocks and minerals. 3 Put these geologica...
