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Continue reading →: Steadily northwards, through some great country..I left Caudiel, northwest of Valencia on Tuesday morning and since then have travelled steadily north through Castellón, then the southeast of Aragon and into Catalonia, an area which I have visited before and is a favourite of mine with its little villages, hills and valleys, olive groves and maze…
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Continue reading →: Kings of the Yukon by Adam Weymouth
British Literature – non fiction – Published 2018 Adam Weymouth is receiving plenty of deserved accolades for his most recent book, Lone Wolf: Walking the Line Between Civilization and Wildness, published last year, and which I enjoyed a lot. So much so, that I looked at his back catalogue and…
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Continue reading →: Service by John Tottenham
British / American literature – Published 2025 This is a book that needs to be read through the prism of its author’s life. It is the story of a middle-aged man named Sean who works in an Echo Park bookstore and is struggling to write a novel. Tottenham himself, a…
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Continue reading →: Alto PalanciaAfter the storms, and after the hurly-burly of Mula, I was keen for some hills more conducive to outdoor activity, so headed to one of my favourite areas, the surrounds on Teruel. Specifically, I aimed for the Via Verde Ojos Negros, which runs between Teruel and Valencia. It actually runs,…
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Continue reading →: The Rabbit Trap
Folk Horror – Britain 2025 When I see a movie reviews getting a wide variety of reviews it always attracts my interest. That was the case with this. The bad reviews, and they were in the majority, intrigued me further; most wanted blood and gore, and more action, but got…
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Continue reading →: Stormy AndaluciaAfter just 45 minutes driving from Algericas I found a good place to spend the night about 10 kilometres east of Estepona and directly on the beach. There were a couple of vans there, but plenty of room. By chance, it was a walk from the Jaipur Indian Restaurant and…
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Continue reading →: Stranger to the Moon by Evelio Rosero
translated from the Spanish (Colombia) by Victor Meadowcroft and Anne McLean – published 1988 This is more Kafkaesque and complex than the other Rosero novels I have read, and with something more of a serious tone to it, less dark humour. It concerns a group of naked political prisoners who…
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Continue reading →: Heed The Thunder by Jim Thompson
American Literature – published 1946 This was Thompson’s second novel, published in 1946, and though it got reviewed favourably it sold few copies. It’s always sad when an author real fame is achieved after their death. He had not long previously relocated to California and was working as a bookkeeper…
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Continue reading →: Back to EuropeI left Laou on Sunday morning after 9 days there. It was a good place to stop, wandering its beach and promenade in the mornings, walking into town and the market in the late afternoon, and enjoying the laidback atmosphere of the place compared to many of the other towns…
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Continue reading →: The Secret Agent
O Agente Secreto – Brazil – 2025 Set to the background of a military dictatorship in the Brazil of 1977 if this was to be judged solely on its plot it would be entertaining, but not memorable, and overhyped by the media and its Oscar nomination. But.. ..it is memorable…
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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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