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Tag: Ghosts of Christmas Past

Happy Halloween Reading

On October 31, 2020April 19, 2021 By bookskepticIn Thoughts1 Comment

I know that all the Halloween reading challenges have probably officially run their course today and typically I am late to the party. The reason for this is I rarely read scary books, but I decided to dig through my past posts to see how rarely really? Well, it turns out really very rarely. But …

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Ghosts of Christmas Past

On December 4, 2017December 3, 2017 By bookskepticIn Reviews6 Comments

Another one of my Cambridge haul down! I'm doing pretty well with it having so far read five out of seven books I bought then, the only ones left are: Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and David Szalay's All That Man Is, so I actually do stand a chance of finishing all of the haul before end of year …

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November round-up

On December 2, 2017December 27, 2017 By bookskepticIn Thoughts2 Comments

November was a weird month. I read a lot more than in October, mostly to escape what was happening in my family, for the first time in a while I actually consciously searched for an escape in books. As always reliable friends they helped me, even if my reading was less patient than usually and …

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Spectacular fall on the home stretch

On November 9, 2017October 27, 2018 By bookskepticIn Thoughts10 Comments

I wrote few weeks ago how I finally caught up with all the reviews, that is now officially in the past, I am three books behind again and surely soon it will be four. This however is a common state of affairs, one may even say it was highly unusual to be caught up with …

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