#BookThreads #booksky 📚💙 #bookstodon A Tough Neighbourhood - my #bookreview for "Brilliant Blue" by Karen Stevens on my #bookblog now! Thanks to Barbican Press for this surprizing collection of #shortstories via @edelweiss about #workingclass Brits. #2026NewReleaseChallenge #20BOS26
http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2026/06/28/shortstorysunday-a-tough-neighbourhood/
A few further thoughts relating to “Mrs Dalloway” #dallowayday #20BOS26 Book 6
In my #DallowayDay post on Mark Hussey's biography of the book, I mentioned that I'd been intrigued to learn that Virginia Woolf had written an introduction to the US Modern Library edition of "Mrs Dalloway"; and I was even more pleased to learn that I had this in "The Mrs Dalloway Reader", a volume I'd picked up many years ago (2015!!) but somehow never read.
My review of Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty #beatthebacklist #speccyficchal #20BOS26
https://thebookstop.wordpress.com/2026/06/24/review-station-eternity-by-mur-lafferty/
“…all I could see was death…” #jozefczapski #nyrbclassics #20BOS26 Book 5
Jozef Czapski is an author whose books have made a couple of appearances on the blog previously. Back in 2019, I wrote about "Lost Time", a collection of lectures he gave on Proust whilst incarcerated in a Soviet concentration camp; and in 2022 I shared my thoughts on his "Memories of Starobielsk", covering his time in that camp.
A Recent Renard Roundup! #20BOS26 Books 2, 3 and 4
It's a while since I featured any of the regular Renard arrivals on the Ramblings, but they continue to pop through the letterbox (as part of my subscription with them) and each book is a little gem. So I thought I would share a few recent incomings, which were wonderful to dip into when I needed a little distraction. One thing I love about Renard is the variety of the titles they issue, and these three volumes reflect…
Bubbles
Davida (Chocolate Lady) Chazan
kaggsy59
CurlyGeek
