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Jigs & Reels – Joanne Harris – Quotes

On July 12, 2021July 17, 2021 By bookskepticIn QuotesLeave a comment

Short and sweet like a short story, here are a few quotes from Jigs&Reels by Joanne Harris A change of costume here, of location there: stories do not die, but are simply reincarnated every generation or so into a different time and idiom - from Fule’s Gold I cried at the unfairness of it all: …

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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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