Welcome!
I've been updating this site, sometimes often, sometimes exceedingly irregularly, since 1999. I turned it into a weblog when that was the done thing in the early 21st century before everyone ran away to social media. Now I'm just about coming round to 'blog' as a word and I'm gradually finding my way back to my own site. There are 1171 posts but the majority of them date from many years ago and may be very outdated in terms of both links and opinions.
I have always kept up with keeping my book reviews on my own site and there are now 1410 books reviewed here. Those are pretty sketchy in the early years but I've got a lot more wordy with them in recent times.
I imported 651 Instagram posts back here during June and July. I'm just missing a few video posts that I haven't worked out how to handle yet. I'm posting new photo posts here.
The search bar could do with tweaking some but it more or less works now.
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kirsty
Inside the Box
8 August 2026
A book about how we do better without infinite time or resources.
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Beloved
19 July 2026
The book that came second in a Guardian top 100 list was just as good as I hoped.
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The Trouble With Goats and Sheep
12 July 2026
Set in the 1976 heatwave this is an entertaining, but also thought provoking, delve into suburban expectations and undercurrents.
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What We Cannot Know
9 July 2026
A really interesting exploration of the edges of scientific knowledge and whether we know what we'll never be able to know about.
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The Killing Time
4 July 2026
Second in a series of time travelling mysteries which are better at having fun with time travelling than they are at mystery.
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Instagram Import
2 July 2026
I've imported 651 posts from instagram. The process of looking through them was as much the point as the result.
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A Family Romance
30 June 2026
Brookner's usual quiet and cool type of novel but, to me, it ultimately didn't quite seem to understand the nature of privilege.
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