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This and that

    I hope you can access these if you don't take the paper, but yesterday's Financial Times had a couple of interesting book-related articles: Erica Wagner on the (Man) Booker Prize, and Edwin Heathcote's piece Tome Management which includes the good line, "Books are the structure of the life of the mind."

    Meanwhile here's Tracy Chevalier on titles, (and her forthcoming novel sounds very promising indeed).

This weekend I 'ave been mostly ...

... clearing books.

    It was time to tackle the study: pretty much all fifty feet of shelving there was double-stacked and there were piles on the floor; everything was dusty. Now all is clean, clear, and calm! 150 books have gone to charity, 100 to another room, and the rest have been reorganised. There are still many hundreds elsewhere in the house to be sorted but we'll leave those for another day.

Well done, Father Christmas!

    The delights I found under the tree yesterday.

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    Thanks to all who gave Santa a prompt; (you know me well!).