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We don’t like to think about death, but the way we die says a lot about how we live.

My latest review explores No Ordinary Deaths: A People's History of Mortality by Molly Conisbee, a book about how even the most ordinary deaths are shaped by culture, community, and time.

https://quitebookish.com/2026/04/01/no-ordinary-deaths-a-peoples-history-of-mortality-by-molly-conisbee/

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No Ordinary Deaths – A People’s History of Mortality by Molly Conisbee

It’s going to happen to all of us. We don’t know when, we don’t know how. Ideally, perhaps, it will take place peacefully after a long and fulfilling life. We might be surrounded …

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Xan_Writer 19h ago

March was a pretty good month for reading 🥰

How'd everyone else do?

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E.S. Raye 1d ago

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Martyn 3d ago

Back in the early 2000s, when I started blogging for the first time, one of the bloggers I regularly read was the crime writer, John Baker.

Like me at the time, John lived in York. He wrote a series of detective novels set in the city featuring his accidential private detective, Sam Turner.

I revisited the series last year, prompting a bit of nostalgia for times, people, and places past.

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https://quitebookish.com/2026/03/28/poet-in-the-gutter-remembering-john-baker-and-1990s-york/

Poet In The Gutter: Remembering John Baker, and 1990s York

Back in the early 2000s, when I started blogging for the first time, one of the bloggers I regularly read was the crime writer, John Baker. Like me at the time, John lived in York, and in his blog,…

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Martyn 3d ago

My new bookblog - it's called 'Quite Bookish', which in time is going to become the name of my book editing business.

I took another look at S*b*a*k as a potential place to host it, but recoiled. It's such an odd platform.

In the end, I've gone for tried and trusted WordPress with my own domain.

Very pleased (and surprised) to discover quitebookish.com was available.

My introductory post tells you what it's all about.

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https://quitebookish.com/2026/03/28/reading-mostly/

Reading, mostly

“The days were quiet. They did not feel particularly quiet or happy but through them ran the sense, like an underground river, that there would come a time when these days would be looked back on a…

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