Tag: books
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Li’l’ Tolkien Post
Not the best photo but, a very beautiful Lily Collins as Edith Tolkien (nee Bratt) in Tolkien (2019). Edith Mary Bratt (b. 21st January 1889) married John Ronald Reuel Tolkien on March 22nd 1916. They had four children together: John, Michael, Christopher, and Priscilla. Edith was a talented pianist, which is something I wish I…
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The WW1 Novel
I realise I’ve talked about ‘the WW1 novel’ on here but never gone into detail about it. Now that Dancing with Edith (my ‘book’) is at the final stages, I’ve been working on the WW1 novel (my ‘novel’) in more depth. Particularly over the last few months as I decided to work on it as…
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Just a post about a favourite actor
This is a Patrick Gibson appreciation post. I’ve been keeping an eye on his career for nearly a decade and he’s genuinely one of my favourite actors. First picture is The Passing Bells (2014), the first role I saw him in. As part of the inspiration for my novel Edward’s Era, this series means a lot…
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International Women’s Day!!
Happy International Women’s Day to all! Here’s a big post to (I hope) celebrate and champion women. First, here are some of my favourite women (real and fictional). My followers may notice that Edith isn’t on this list. The sole reason for that is that I wanted to champion some different women today. Edith will…
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February Books
The shortest month of the year is over (I started writing this at the beginning of March) and I have only read two books. In my defence, if the month had been a couple of days longer I hopefully would maybe have read three because I almost got to the end of one. I’m also…
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January Books
Decided I’m going to do monthly book posts rather than a big yearly one (which I realise I still haven’t finished). This month I managed to read/finish 3 books, which is an usually impressive number for me as it’s almost the equivalent of one a week. 1. Ruth Ellis, Victoria Blake I read this over…
The Hopeful Edwardian 