119 Posts Categorised under "books".

2025 in Books

2025 in Books

2 January 2026

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New To Me Books and Games

5 April 2025

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2024 in Books

2024 in Books

15 January 2025

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Not Actually Series

15 November 2024

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The Five Book Club

15 May 2024

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2023 in Books

2023 in Books

6 February 2024

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2022 in Books

3 January 2023

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New Places To Find Me

18 December 2010

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This looks simply amazing! Pity it’s all the way over in...

4 May 2010

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Booker Prize Shortlist - Actual Version

6 September 2007

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Booker Prize Shortlist - My Guesses

6 September 2007

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The judges for the 2007 Man Booker Prize for Fiction today (Tuesday 7th August) announce their...

7 August 2007

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Amazon Recursion

2 August 2007

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Reading Roundup

8 January 2007

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the joy of reading

22 August 2006

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yearly book roundup

18 January 2006

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updated

18 January 2006

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breaking the silence

5 September 2005

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yearly book update

3 January 2005

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del.icio.us

23 December 2004

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hit map

28 October 2004

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bags of rags

12 October 2004

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euler was robbed

11 October 2004

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world of reading

4 March 2004

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milestone

11 December 2003

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cataloging books

29 August 2003

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from space

18 August 2003

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complements

12 August 2003

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compet*tive

11 August 2003

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heated

10 August 2003

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how many things?

1 August 2003

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acrobat writer

1 August 2003

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another loss

29 July 2003

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before that

29 July 2003

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barf-globs

25 July 2003

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welcome to the future

24 July 2003

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bread bread bread

23 July 2003

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disappearances

21 July 2003

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In a True Light by John Harvey

21 July 2003

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head for the white mountains

1 July 2003

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the order of the phoenix

23 June 2003

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close to home

15 June 2003

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boo hiss

4 June 2003

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i am ...

4 June 2003

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better piccies

16 May 2003

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fun

15 May 2003

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ghosts

13 May 2003

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grrrrr

12 May 2003

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eye strain

8 May 2003

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camberwick in flames

7 May 2003

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diamonds

6 May 2003

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gone....

25 April 2003

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it would be a tad refracted

23 April 2003

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dancing

17 April 2003

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it seems to be summer

17 April 2003

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could be good reads

16 April 2003

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craftily reading

16 April 2003

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halcion, tedium, actium, clorox

15 April 2003

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for sale

14 April 2003

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dolor sit amet

10 April 2003

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eye candy

4 April 2003

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in perpetuity

2 April 2003

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a second peter rabbit

29 March 2003

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the world of sherlock holmes

28 March 2003

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katy did five things

27 March 2003

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fruit-eating space monkey

24 March 2003

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upgradable books

18 March 2003

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rotten children

9 March 2003

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high and windy places

8 March 2003

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home sweet home?

7 March 2003

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enigma

7 March 2003

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bags of pockets

3 March 2003

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*book* shelves

21 February 2003

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hiccups

13 February 2003

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speedy connections

13 February 2003

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another birthday for loquax

10 February 2003

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categorising cake

6 February 2003

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caring consumers

6 February 2003

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simenon's centenary

4 February 2003

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halo

29 January 2003

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coloured boxes

27 January 2003

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good neighbours

16 January 2003

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back soon

6 January 2003

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kirsty through the looking glass

18 December 2002

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invisibility

18 December 2002

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in summary

2 December 2002

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know your geography

22 November 2002

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fiddly things

19 November 2002

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strange trees

18 November 2002

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grrr

18 November 2002

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literally spent

10 November 2002

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bath

5 November 2002

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book fever

5 November 2002

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boats

1 November 2002

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can't get down

30 October 2002

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culture

30 October 2002

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i hate ie (not really news i'm sure)

30 October 2002

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things i was doing when i had better things to do

22 October 2002

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an f word

22 October 2002

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clouds, cauldrons and colonies

10 October 2002

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counting with google.co.uk

10 October 2002

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an umbrella and a rug

8 October 2002

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bargain?

2 October 2002

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antique software

23 September 2002

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glass

17 September 2002

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is not

16 September 2002

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my all consuming passion

4 September 2002

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lost in a good book?

23 August 2002

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no advice taken

25 April 2002

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reading about reading

25 April 2002

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my booklog

22 January 2002

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top reads of 2001

4 January 2002

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the invisible library is ...

6 November 2001

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usually amazon send me ...

9 October 2001

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this week it's the ...

26 September 2001

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watch out, product placement ...

3 September 2001

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A new name joins ...

22 August 2001

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amazon tell me that ...

16 July 2001

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over the past 18 ...

10 July 2001

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