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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 There are 1170 posts but the majority of them date from many years ago and may be very outdated in terms of both links and opinions.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 1400 books reviewed here. Those are pretty sketchy in the early years but I've got a lot more wordy with them in recent times.

There used to be more here than that and there will be again. Beware the search bar is currently rather broken.

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kirsty

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Love and Friendship

17 June 2026

Alison Lurie's first adult novel, set in an New England college felt far more English than American. I'm now halfway through her books!

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Same As It Ever Was

8 June 2026

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Deadman's Pool

5 June 2026

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Ink Ribbon Red

1 June 2026

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The Astral Library

28 May 2026

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Grey Stones

24 May 2026

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Red House

24 May 2026

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Kin

13 May 2026

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All the Colours of the Dark

26 April 2026

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The Secret of the Old Clock

20 March 2026

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Blaming

12 March 2026

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You Are Here

7 March 2026

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For more posts see the yearly archives (these work), or the category archives (these technically work but are so miscategorised I wouldn't bother trying).