Stories that make sense
I’ve talked about The Comfortable Courtesan before, and I’m delighted to see her in a position to reach a wider audience. She’s even on Twitter now!
As for this particular copy, the package it came in was missing for several days before our neighbour discovered it in his shed. I hadn’t quite given it up for lost, but it was very good to see it.
A plastic recorder, a metal and plastic harmonica, a wood and wire cello. I don’t know which is closest to Rumi’s reed flute.
Since I was cut from the reedbed
I have made this crying sound.Anyone apart from someone he loves
understands what I say.
You can take that how you like.
I have no clue what the Dorothy L. Sayers estate thought they were doing?
Jill Paton Walsh has no clue how the world she’s writing about actually works?
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I’ve heard it said so often, that ballet dancers are immensely strong, that in my mind it’s become a bit of a cliché.
Personally I find this book a bit heavy – literally, physically – to hold up for more than a few pages at a time. Worth the effort, though.
I’m really looking forward to reading this one – as is probably obvious, it was a lucky find in a charity shop a couple of weeks ago.
This book comes from an American tradition of LGBT teen literature that never existed on this side of the Atlantic. It would have made my life much easier if it had, and there’s something sad about all those books that might have been and weren’t.
It’s not surprising that cookery books are the ones that come in for the most punishment. This one gets referred to mainly for the Christmas Eve meal (several courses, most of them fish, in great haste, between the carol service and Midnight Mass) and flavoured vodkas (most of them go like this: dump flavoured component in vodka; leave to steep; strain).
I don’t drive. I do cycle, though. So do many other people in my life. I bought this book for one of them as a birthday present and restrained myself with great difficulty from reading the whole thing before I wrapped it up.
Active Anglicans may well know Dave Walker from his work for the Church Times. His cycling cartoons are just as funny and well-observed.
Kathleen Jowitt 