kaggsy59 📚📚📚😷
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"Vivre le livre!" Books. I love books and read books and write about books! MD Alternative National Treasure. IG @kaggsy59 Mastodon: @[email protected]
Joined October 2011
In case things continue going the way they are here, you can find me elsewhere, still rambling on about books...
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today @MinorLits ... In A Nameless Place: Some Notes on Reading Anna Kavan’s Asylum Piece — Anna Evans https://t.co/dy0fIZ1GIz
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It was the woolgathering, of course, the preoccupation with non-human things, the interest in the wrong place… What I think of is fragments dispersed by the wind and left behind. A word that conjur…
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Happy #RLSDay! Today is the 175th birthday of the great Robert Louis Stevenson, and I celebrate by revisiting his classic Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde!
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The great Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson was born on 13th November and every year there is a celebration of his birthday entitled RLS Day. I’ve taken part in this on a number of occas…
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For #GermanLitMonth - a fascinating piece of modernist literature from @TwistSpoonPress - more on the blog!
On the Ramblings today - a remarkable new book from @TwistSpoonPress which also works for #GLM2025 and #NovNov25! More here:
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On the Ramblings today - a remarkable new book from @TwistSpoonPress which also works for #GLM2025 and #NovNov25! More here:
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Twisted Spoon Press are a Prague-based publisher who produce a fascinating range of books, and I’ve written about a good number of titles here on the Ramblings. Their titles are often quirky,…
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"Occasionally a whole town would be implicated. Quiet, non-political, peace-loving people waited behind closed doors for the shooting and the hurrying footsteps to cease; the streets were unsafe; the very nights were restless." #BookTwitter #booktwt
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... in which I am slightly underwhelmed by Patrick Modiano... #novnov2025🫤
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An author who keeps reappearing on my radar is Patrick Modiano, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature back in 2014. I read his book “Search Warrant” in 2015 and did get a lot from it…
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Today on the blog, for #MARM2025, I take a look at two different sides of the marvellous @MargaretAtwood - more here!
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For the past several years, Buried in Print has hosted a Margaret Atwood Reading Month in November, to celebrate the great Canadian author during the month of her birth. I’ve very much enjoye…
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New on the blog today, I've written about SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA by Lidija Hilje. A sultry, sun-drenched, emotionally involving story of first love, the ongoing yearning that follows and the agonising sacrifices we sometimes make for those around us. https://t.co/fk18x7m86W
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For the afternoon crowd... Whilst in @Dauntbooks last month I stumbled across an amazing little book about Proust from @LesFugitives - more here!
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At the beginning of October, I had a lovely jaunt to London to do a little shopping with my BFF J. Our main mission was a visit to Daunt Books in Marylebone High Street, a bookshop I’d heard …
On the Ramblings today, I share my thoughts about 'Zombie Proust', a random find at @Dauntbooks which turned out to be an incredible read! More here! https://t.co/ok2eVgNkjy
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On the Ramblings today, I share my thoughts about 'Zombie Proust', a random find at @Dauntbooks which turned out to be an incredible read! More here! https://t.co/ok2eVgNkjy
@LesFugitives
kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com
At the beginning of October, I had a lovely jaunt to London to do a little shopping with my BFF J. Our main mission was a visit to Daunt Books in Marylebone High Street, a bookshop I’d heard …
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Looking back at October reading - It was a cracking month!
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I can’t believe that we’re actually at the end of October; the year is flying by, scarily so, and the dreaded C-word will be on us before we know it! I did have a very good month of rea…
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On the Ramblings today, my thoughts on a fabulous new anthology of impossible crimes from @BL_Publishing - more here!
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If you’ve ever thought that locked room mysteries must be a bit boring or repetitive, a new anthology from British Library Publishing will go a long way in dispelling those ideas! “As I…
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La bibliothèque de l’Arsenal conserve les archives rescapées de la prise de la Bastille autrefois organisées par la police parisienne. Notre conférence du 3 novembre propose d’explorer les relations entre la Lieutenance de police et ses archives
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BnF - Site institutionnel
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Prunella Scales was a wonderful actress who brought her high intelligence to every part she played - from Sybil Fawlty to Elizabeth II. She was funny, intrepid, interesting, interested, challenging, huge fun. & blessed with a beautiful marriage. All this & the canal journeys too!
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Ten for ten years of the club years - Winstonsdad's Blog I pick my ten favourite reads of @kaggsy59 and Simons club years
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I had wanted to post this yesterday, but last week was the tenth year of Karen's and Simon's club year. Last week, they picked their ten favourite reads over the last decade of club reads. Well, I am...
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Shiny Tues: @LyzzyBee_Libro, @kaggsy59 and @annabookbel combine to review three new titles from Lonely Planet today - Route 66, Epic Runs and Epic Train journeys -
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Lonely Planet, Epic Runs of the World Review by Liz Dexter Here we have an attractive and informative book which is an ideal gift for the runner in your life. A set of running writers describe fift…
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Woman of the Day Jane Whyte, born in 1844 in Aberdeenshire, a crofter’s wife and mother of nine who was walking her dog along New Aberdour beach when she spotted the SS William Hope drifting helplessly toward jagged rocks after its engine failed and its anchor chain snapped OTD
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