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Mainly books but also travel and art, viewing rather than creating
I blog at http://alifeinbooks.co.uk and live in beautiful Bath, UK.
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New on my blog - Blasts from the Past: Dreamland by Kevin Baker (1999) alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/12/blas... #BookSky
Blasts from the Past: Dreamland by Kevin Baker (1999) - A Life in Books
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.
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From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent
December 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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When I tell you that Chocolate Salame is #RecipeOfTheDay, don’t be alarmed! It’s just the Italian version of a chocolate refrigerator cake, fashioned to resemble salame. I’ve upped the ante with hazelnuts, pistachios, amaretti biscuits and Amaretto. www.nigella.com/recipes/choc...
Chocolate Salame
I’ve encountered quite a few versions of chocolate salame in Italy — coming to the conclusion that it’s really an Italian version of our chocolate refrigerator cake — and although I am not normally a ...
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December 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Very sad to hear this.

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Martin Parr, photographer acclaimed for observations of British life, dies aged 73
Known for acute observations of class system, Parr’s images were often in vivid colour with more than a dash of humour
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December 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Get a load of this. 😆
A post from ViperThreat: Worked as an on-call computer tech for about a year, and I've seen some weird shit. Plenty of Hoarders, elderly men with interesting sexual fantasies, Multimillonaire Lawyers with closets full of gay porn, etc. The weirdest one was this cool old dude who had retired and lived in a double-wide trailer in a fairly nice retirement trailer park. His house had one of those trains that traveled along the walls from room to room, occasionally poking through walls and such. The primary purpose of this train was to carry his bird (a blue macaw IIRC) around the house. From his explanation, the bird had some birth defects and had difficulty flying, so they built the train for the bird to cruise around the house on. This may not sound all that weird to you, but let me set the stage for you: You're a college student removing a stupid browser hijack from some old guy's computer. You're nearly done with the job when you hear a clacking sound and look up to see a toy train crossing your vision. Aboard the train is a decently sized bird that makes eye contact with you and says "choo choo motherfucker" before disappearing into the next room. One of the most surreal moments of my life.
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Birds of a feather
Burrowing Owls
Photo by Gary Nealy Jr
December 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Something for the weekend: Six Degrees of Separation – Seascraper to Shadow Ticket alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/12/six-... #BookSky
Six Degrees of Separation – Seascraper to Shadow Ticket - A Life in Books
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December 7, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. I’m not overstating when I say that Opera Australia’s Orpheus & Eurydice was the most incredible production I’ve seen in thirty years (the previous benchmark being Barrie …
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December 7, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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A Bench in Swaledale
An end-of-Autumn day near Muker, Swaledale. For Jude’s Bench Challenge.
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December 7, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Something for the weekend: Six Degrees of Separation – Seascraper to Shadow Ticket alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/12/six-... #BookSky
Six Degrees of Separation – Seascraper to Shadow Ticket - A Life in Books
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.
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December 7, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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December 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Six Degrees of Separation: Seascraper
It’s time for the super monthly tag Six Degrees of Separation, which is hosted by Kate at Booksaremyfavouriteandbest, Six Degrees of Separation #6degrees picks a starting book for participants to g…
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December 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Six Degrees of Separation – Seascraper to Shadow Ticket alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/12/six-...
Six Degrees of Separation – Seascraper to Shadow Ticket - A Life in Books
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.
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December 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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#NovNov25 Final Statistics & Some 2026 Novellas to Look Out For (Chapman, Fennelly, Gremaud, Miles, Netherclift & Saunders)
Novellas in November 2025 was a roaring success: In total, we had 50 bloggers contributing 216 posts covering at least 207 books! The buddy read(s) had 14 participants. If you want to take a look b…
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December 6, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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TCL's #6Degrees of Separation for December 6, 2025. tcl-bookreviews.com/2025/12/06/t...
TCL’s #6Degrees of Separation for December 6, 2025.
From Seascraper by Benjamin Wood to Tides by Sara Freeman. This is a monthly link-up hosted by Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best. Each month a book is chosen as a starting point and linked to…
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December 6, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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#6Degrees of Separation - A book chain from Seascraper to The French Lieutenant's Woman whatcathyreadnext.co.uk/2025/12/06/6...
#6Degrees of Separation – A book chain from Seascraper to The French Lieutenant’s Woman
It’s the first Saturday of the month which means it’s time for 6 Degrees of Separation. Here’s how it works: a book is chosen as a starting point by Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best&nbs…
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December 6, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Winding Up the Week #450 bookjotter.com/2025/12/06/w...
Winding Up the Week #450
This week I look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, announce next year’s Nonfiction Reader Challenge along with Hungarian Lit Month 2…
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December 6, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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It's the first Satuerday of the month; time for my favourite books meme: Six Degrees of Separation – Seascraper to Shadow Ticket alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/12/six-... #BookSky
Six Degrees of Separation – Seascraper to Shadow Ticket - A Life in Books
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.
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December 6, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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New on my blog - Blasts from the Past: Dreamland by Kevin Baker (1999) alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/12/blas... #BookSky
Blasts from the Past: Dreamland by Kevin Baker (1999) - A Life in Books
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.
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December 5, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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On a year in reading
Like in my previous post, On a year in Writing, where I didn’t feel I have written much this year in this post, On a year in Reading, likewise I don’t feel I have read much.
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December 5, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Google has revealed the top trending books of 2025 in search results, including Colleen Hoover, Rebecca Yarros and George Orwell 👇 #BookSky
Google reveals the top trending books of 2025 in search results
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December 5, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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🖼️ Sally Walker
Drawing of hare in mid leap on white paper.
December 5, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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New on my blog - Blasts from the Past: Dreamland by Kevin Baker (1999) alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/12/blas... #BookSky
Blasts from the Past: Dreamland by Kevin Baker (1999) - A Life in Books
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.
alifeinbooks.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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#FridayFun: Industrial Architecture in Berlin findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/f...
#FridayFun: Industrial Architecture in Berlin
Last week I showed you the fun palaces in the surrounding area, but one thing I really admire about Berlin is the way many former industrial sites have been repurposed, quite often as places for th…
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December 5, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Songs in Ursa Major by Emma Brodie – Book Group report
Finding flora and fauna books beginning with ‘U’ was difficult until someone suggested ursa for bear – which led me to suggest this one, which has been languishing on my shelves, …
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December 5, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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A Snapshot of My Reading #10 alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/12/a-sn...
A Snapshot of My Reading #10 - A Life in Books
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.
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December 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM