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About The Librain

Retired School Librarian

Update 11/09/20 with something new!

I just cannot resist sales! The problem with using an iPad all day – to watch TV and films, to read books, to surf the web – is that I have such easy access to temptation. I try to resist, … Continue reading

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Reading roundup 09/09/20

I got myself into a bit of a muddle with my reading this week. This is what happened… Feeling bored, I had a look through the ebook catalogue on our Public Library’s app and chose a few to download, purely … Continue reading

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Update 07/09/20

I am going to spend some time this afternoon answering comments and updating a couple of older posts. First of all, I must apologise once again for being so tardy with replying to your kind remarks. I was always a … Continue reading

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Outfit of the day 04/09/20

The weather has been pretty dreary so far today: grey and cloudy, with a slight feeling of damp in the air. Despite that, I have been feeling quite upbeat and so decided to put together a nice outfit in greenish … Continue reading

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Reading roundup 02/09/20

After the intense excitement of the two books I wrote about last week, I turned the dial down a bit! I finished two books, about which I will tell you more in a minute. They were both very different but also … Continue reading

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Update 31/08/20 with an interesting video

I can’t quite believe that it is the end of August already! Time really does whizz past quickly as you get older, even when you are not doing anything very exciting. Today’s post is about this superb video that my … Continue reading

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Outfit of the day 28/08/20

I have been out today! And I was able to wear a nice outfit! And I interacted with friends, rather than just family! Hooray!!! Some old friends were passing by, on their way home from their holiday and so we … Continue reading

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Reading roundup 26/08/20

I don’t suppose that it will be hard to guess the titles of the two books I read this last week! After all, in the previous Reading Roundup I gave you all my verdict on John Gwynne’s A Time of … Continue reading

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Update 24/08/20

I’m sorry that I didn’t post last Friday. It would have been my Mother’s 89th birthday and I felt so sad, thinking about how much I miss her. I simply couldn’t bring myself to write anything on here. To be … Continue reading

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Reading roundup 19/08/20

I must apologise again for missing last week’s Reading Roundup post. There are two books to write about this week and I am already halfway through a third. A few weeks ago, I wrote about one of my favourite author’s … Continue reading

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