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Mainly books, a bit of art appreciation and gardening, along with anything else that takes my fancy.

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The Anatomy of a Village by Thomas Sharp was published in 1946 as Penguin Book E33.

Sharp's preface states: "All that is attempted in these pages is a consideration of some of the principles which should govern physical design in the building of new villages and in extending or rebuilding old ones". He defines a village as "a compact grouping of anywhere between 100 and 1,500 people" and he estimates that there were between eight and ten thousand such villages in England alone.
I'm guessing that most have now been "swallowed up" with their remains lost within the mostly bland redevelopments of the past 70 years and any that remain and retain any of their original charm and character are constantly under the threat of ugly enlargement into the dreariness of the homogeneous "small town".

His text is well illustrated with existing village plans and some amazing full-page photographs showing scenes of archetypal English villages such as those that are locked into the subconscious mind of readers of early twentieth century English crime fiction by Christie, Sayles, Allingham and Carr etc.

The villages shown here are:
West Wycombe (Buckinghamshire)
Kimbolton (Huntingdonshire)
Finchingfield (Essex)
Yalding (Kent)
Whittington (Gloucestershire)
Askham (Cumberland)
Hoxne (Norfolk)
Hatfield Broad Oak (Essex)
Upwell (Cambridgeshire)
Kirklington (Oxfordshire)
Biddestone (Wiltshire)
Dunsford (Devonshire) - I particularly like the folded arms poses adopted by the two village girls staring down the camera with an "enter at your peril" attitude.
Very "Agatha Christie" indeed! 🤣

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My band is country and has more twang than a Texas summer.😉 🪕🎻

Band Name: The Thorn Birds
Lead: Brother of the More Famous Jack
Debut Album: Stillmeadow Album
First Single: Bastard out of Carolina
Tour Name: The Fly on the Wheel
Sound: Backroads
Groupies: Latchkey Ladies
Scandal: The Sweet Dove Died

This was fun!
#letsstartabandchallenge #bookstagram #countryroads

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#bluebooks

The latest book posts I’ve seen are about a quiz one can take to find out what type of reader you are. I joined the fun and discovered I am a Blue Reader which suits me just fine. Swipe to see the description of this type of reader. If you are interested in taking this quiz, you can find it at readyourcolor.com.

💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

#bookquiz #booklover #bookworm #reader #bookstagram #loverofblue
#bookstack #bookchallenges

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I highly recommend this magnificent exhibition on Vanessa Bell. Six rooms full of her paintings during her lifetime depicting her different styles. Oils, textiles, ceramics etc. So comprehensive. Even the mantelpiece, doors and screens from Charleston were here.

Milton Keynes is a weird sort of place but easily accessible by car. Junction 14 off the M1. Parked outside at the Park and Ride and travelled in by bus for £2.50. Easy peasy.

Nice lunch at the gallery cafe.

#vanessabell
#exhibition
#miltonkeynesgallery

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Good Morning Election Day! 🇺🇸 💙

#tenbookstendays Day #3

Continuing with my #nonfictionnovember choices, today I am featuring:

📖 Shortest Way Home by Pete Buttigieg

This is one of my favorite books even though I haven’t read it yet. 😊

We lived in South Bend when Mayor Pete was the mayor. We met him and heard him speak several times (my book is autographed). He is the real deal. He is warm, approachable, caring and so smart. He has a vision to make our country a better place. I loved listening to him and was so thrilled when he rose to national prominence.

Let’s hope the voters here in the U. S. are ready to make our country a better place.

I’m not tagging anyone today, but if sharing 10 books on your TBR is something you’d like to do, I’d love to see what you have.

#booklove #booknerd #bookchallenge #petebuttigieg 📚❤️

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Good Morning Sunday! 🫖 🍫

I’m combining three challenges this morning! (That extra hour of sleep is responsible for this!).

#tenbookstendays Day 2

Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten

I know this looks like a library book. It actually is a library book, but I do own the book…I just lent it to my neighbor. When the audio book came through in the @libby.app and I found a copy sitting on the shelf at the library yesterday, I knew I needed to read it today. I love Ina. I love cookbooks. I love food memoirs.

#nonfictionnovember

I think that memoirs are probably my favorite nonfiction books, especially on audio. Maybe it’s because I’m nosey? I just love learning about people’s lives.

#octoberteas2024

Erin @talesnteacups has assured us that we can continue to do the October tea challenge through this week if there are any we missed we wanted to do. Day #30 was something orange and caramel. I love orange, especially in October and November. 🧡🍂 That’s a pie pumpkin waiting to be made into a pie, the tea is tangerine Earl Grey, and that’s my favorite dark chocolate with caramel.

I am tagging @phillybookfairy for the #tebookstendays challenge. That might be cheating a bit since she already told me she was going to do this…and with nonfiction too! 🧡

Thanks @ricedrew for the tea…it really is delicious. And for the mug too.🧡

Hope you have a pleasant, peaceful Sunday. 🧡

#booklove #booknerd #bookchallenge #bereadywhentheluckhappens #amtrady #cutrentread #novembereads #cuppatea #booksandtea 📚❤️

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Good Morning Saturday! 📖🍁🍂

#tenbookstendays Day 1

I’n planning to post 10 days of nonfiction books I own that I haven’t read in honor of #nonfictionnovember.. Maybe I’ll even read some of them!

I actually am reading this one:
📖 Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels. Hustles and So-Called Hospitality by Jacob Tomsky.

I read about this book in the travel pages of a newspaper…back when I used to get newspapers delivered to my home. It sounded interesting to me ( I love hotels!) It was published in 2012, so I’ve probably had it for some time.

The audiobook was available from @libby.app. I thought it would be a good company for the stress cleaning I’m going to be doing for the next 4 days. It’s narrated by the author and I’m enjoying it so far.

Thanks @ynott59 for the tag. I’ve loved seeing the variety of books lurking unread in people’s shelves. Today I’m tagging @babygotbooks4life.No pressure Ellen, maybe you’ve already done this?

It finally feels like fall 🍁🍂 and I’m here for it! Six year old Kiwi will be here most of the weekend. She hadn’t been here for a while, so she’s been having fun getting reacquainted with her “office.” She has a desk next to mine and yesterday she was rearranging things and writing books! Be still my heart. ❤️

Hope you have a great weekend! Any fun plans?

#booklove #booknerd #headsinbeds #bookchallenge #novembereads 📚❤️

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Death Under A Little Sky | REVIEW 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Stig Abell, a journalist, broadcaster, and editor of the Times Literary Supplement has written his first crime novel. But it’s so much more than a crime novel; literary, romantic, quietly eerie, full of lyrical descriptions of nature, sharply drawn characters and clever dialogue. And did I mention the L-shaped library and the frequent references to books and authors.

It’s Jake’s story - he’s 38, his marriage has failed, he’s resigned from his policing role, and has settled into the peace of the English countryside to regroup. Because countrysides are peaceful, right? He seeks solitude, time for reflection, and a reconnection with nature. He finds these things in abundance. He swims, he runs, he keeps chickens. He falls in love.
“And the true joy of deprivation is the elevation of small pleasures: warm water feels better after the cold, friendly words resonate more after silence, a hot fire is comforting on a frosty night. Life should be as simple as that, perhaps.”

Being a crime novel, it’s only a matter of time before the seedy underbelly of this particular English countryside is exposed, beginning with the discovery of bones where there shouldn’t be bones.

One reviewer called this book “atmospheric, often meditative” and I’d concur. It has charmed me. There is a crime, but for me it was the least of its pleasures. It’s unusual to find such a well developed, convincing and affecting relationship in a novel whose main concern is ‘whodunit’, though that resolution is satisfying too. I can’t wait to read the second book in the series.

Thanks again to my friend Tony @ynott59 for being such an excellent recommender of books.

#bookstagram #bookstagrammer #booknerd #bookworm #bibliophile #bookish #booklover #readersofinstagram #bookblogger #stigabell #crimefiction #crimewriting

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‘Can a landscape heal us? Yes. Will it always? No, not always. Because it’s not the work of land alone to heal human inflicted wounds’

@ruthallen.geotherapist goes on to say that ‘going outside isn’t about one-directional healing and a bypass of the difficult stuff it is about the space to see life more fully.’

I tend to agree with Ruth, and I’m finding my #currentread📖 by this talented outdoor psychotherapist and geologist truly groundbreaking.

I’m only about half way through but I’m enjoying hearing about Ruth’s clients; her case studies and the balance between mind, body and the ancient landscape.

Having suffered anxiety, depression, burn-out and grief - and sought the help from therapists in the past, I am interested to see where the rest of this truly engaging read will take me.

I am myself heading off grid for a while, but if you’d like to know more about this enduring read, please do check out the following #bookstagrammers for a more detailed review: @ynott59 @beth.bonini and @contraryreader . I will put a link in my stories.

I’m hoping this review may qualify for @salboreads #mindfulmondays . I think you might like this book Sally. @dems_book_den have you read it yet? I did think of you when I was reading it.

Many thanks to @eburybooks for this beautiful gifted copy. Ad/pr product.

Wishing you all a wonderful week ahead, wherever it may take you.

I’m signing out for now, but will be back again soon!
Sending love & hugs 🌿💚.

#newbook2024 #recentlypublished #weathering #nonfictionbooksofinstagram #naturewritingbywomen #naturebook #outdoortherapy☀️ #mentalhealthmonday #womennonfictionwriter #readersofinstagram #bookstagramuk #eburybooks #ruthallen #bookrecommendations #naturememoir #landscapewriting

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30 Day #bookishchallenge
Day 8: Admirable Heroine

Its sad to say, but there seem to be too few real heroines in classic literature, since women were expected to be protected and rescued, not find their own solutions and fend for themselves. Often those that did were considered at the very least nonconformist. Nowhere were the fears of nonconformity stronger than in the priveleged class, where women were allowed to help others, but from the security of civic organizations and approved, fashionable societies dedicated to charitable work.

One novel, Howards End by E.M . Forster, provides heroines who are unafraid to rely on themselves and their own relatively meager means and abilities, ignoring social constraints to help others they encounter. The two most prominent are the Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, who rise above the restraints of class and “moral rectitude” to deal with others on an individual level, being more concerned with intellectual, political, and ethical matters than vanity and social airs. Each would, in her turn, fly in the face of convention to show quiet heroism.

Tagging a few, but feel free to join in!

#bookstagram #booksbooksbooks #lovetoread #bookworm #booknerd #book #emforster #britishauthor #howardsend #socialism #imperialism #ww1

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STILL #currentlyreading 😌

30 Day #bookishchallenge
Day 3: Vacation read

I know this does not look like a book one would take on vacation, but that’s because I won’t be traveling most likely on my next vacation. It will simply be a break from my full days of study, and probably spent here at home. Just to have a chance to read again will be vacation enough! ☺️

I am due to read Hesse’s Fairytales with @byssheplease_ and (he’s been so patient while I finish #Armadale by Wilkie Collins). If the opportunity arises I want to try to read Now In November as well, but that might just be my usual unrealistic optimism taking over. 😅

I tagged a few others if you want to join in, or feel free to join without being tagged. 💛

#bookstagram #booksbooksbooks #bookchallenge #bookpost #bookbuddies #vacationreads #classicscommunity #hermanhesse

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I enjoy all the #booktastechallenge posts going around. I like getting a better idea of my booksta buddies favorite books. And I always like anything where I get points for reading – even points that don’t really count for anything. 🙃

📸 Here’s my contribution to the challenge. Let’s say these are “ten of my favorite books” rather than “my ten favorite books.” I would be flummoxed if I tried to make a stack of those! These ten called to me from my shelves.

🙋🏼‍♀️ Rack up your points and leave a comment with your score:

10 points if you’ve read it
5 points if you are reading it right now
2 points if it is on your TBR shelf
1 point if you started but DNF

🎠 Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: I read it for a Great Books class in college and loved it.

🏫 The Groves of Academe by Mary McCarthy: Considered the first (and to me the best) Campus Novel. Slyly hilarious and better than The Group IMO.

🦴 The Bone People by Keri Hulme: A difficult but powerful book that won the Booker Prize in 1985.

🕯️ Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov: In a league of its own.

🔔 The Bell by Iris Murdoch: Maybe her most approachable book and a tie for my favorite with The Sea, the Sea.

🌷 Amsterdam by Ian McEwan: Not everyone likes this book, but I love everything about it.

🐄 Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons: My choice for favorite feel good book.

👨🏼‍⚖️ Old Filth by Jane Gardam: A newish writer for me who is now high on my favorites list.

🏡 The Road Home by Jim Harrison: Harrison is probably my very favorite author and this my favorite book of his.

⛪️ Earthly Power by Anthony Burgess: I have mixed feelings about the story, but this shaggy saga kept me riveted. It has my favorite opening sentence: “It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.” 😳

See any of your favorites here? How compatible are we? 🤷🏼‍♀️

Play along if this looks like fun. I tagged a few (with apologies if you already did this). Please tag me if you post so I am sure to catch it.

#favoritebooks #favoriteauthors #bookstagramchallenge

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