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Continue reading →: Dr. Josef’s Little Beauty by Zyta Rudzka
translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd- Jones Set in a Polish nursing home in the 1960s for those damaged and maimed in the war, this is the harrowing story of two sisters who survived Auschwitz. In order to survive Leokadia and Helena convinced everyone that they were twins, however,…
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Continue reading →: Andøya, Vesterålen IslandsAfter a day of cloud and drizzle on the Vesterålen island of Langøya we have moved east to the next island, Andøya. Despite the rain we hiked a good section of the coastal walk on the west of Langøya yesterday. As usual with such rocky coastal walks, there was plenty…
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Continue reading →: Onwards to the Vesterålen Islands24 hours of sun takes a bit of getting used to. I’m not having any problem sleeping, but it can mean that by 6 am the sun is much higher in the sky than one might think. This results in mornings like this one, when that is the warmest time…
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Continue reading →: River of Darkness by Buddy Levy
Francisco Orellana and the Deadly First Voyage through the Amazon Levy’s books are exciting and informative to read. They read like fiction. If I compare him to someone like Harry Thompson (who sadly died so young) in his book This Thing of Darknes (concerning Fitzroy’s voyages including with Charles Darwin),…
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Continue reading →: Cricket at SkutvikThe rain arrived later than predicted on Saturday, just after 11 am, but it set in and would have made outdoor activity challenging. From our spot on the quayside I could see the cloud gathering, so had 90 minutes out just after breakfast. There’s a sculpture trail in Tranøy which…
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Continue reading →: And So To Death by William Irish
Cornell Woolrich writing under the name of William Irish This novella was first published in the Argosy magazine in March 1941 with the title And So to Death, and two years later it was re-printed under the title Nightmare. To confuse matters further it has on occasion appeared under both…
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Continue reading →: Bad Habit by Alana S. Portero
translated from the Spanish by Mara Faye Lethem Set in the working-class neighbourhood of San Blas in Madrid during the 1980s and 1990s this debut novel from Portero wonderfully captures the tribulations and complexity of adolescence of a trans teenager. The protagonist is unnamed, and though she is quite sure…
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Continue reading →: Journeyman by Erskine Caldwell
This fits one of my favourite micro-genres, that of dodgy preachers. Back to that later.. It is also probably Caldwell’s most controversial novel. His publisher, in 1935, was forced to initially issue a very limited number of copies, and to include with it a disclaimer.. Frankly, we feel that we…
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Continue reading →: On Tranøy quaysideToday was set to be a hot day, a bit cooler here on the northern extremity of the island with a breeze, but still the sun is high early, so 20C by midday, to rise to 27 later on. I moved a few kilometres from the lighthouse to the quayside…
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Continue reading →: To Tranøy LighthouseThe farmer I met yesterday moved her cows as she had told me, to the area we needed to walk through this morning, and they were adolescent bulls, so a problem with Roja. They were more curious than aggressive but at the size when even their curiosity is a threat.…
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Where is Andy?
I was so much older then…
Quote of the Week
Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, ‘What road do I take?’ The cat asked, ‘Where do you want to go?’ ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it really doesn’t matter, does it?’
Lewis Carroll
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