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LazyDaisy
LazyDaisy
Mar 2020
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I can't recsll if I've read that Dio. Reading the synopsis it sounds familiar but I can't recall feeling anything much about it. I winder if it was a Book at Bedtime where I missed some episodes. I might look it out now.

Over the weekend I read A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor. Why have I never read any of her stuff before? Even better than Barbara Pym, IMO. Perceptive, crisp, funny. A delight.
McGoohan
McGoohan
Mar 2020
7:25am, 4 Mar 2020
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McGoohan
All that and a glittering Hollywood career too! ;-)
Serendippily
Serendippily
Mar 2020
7:27am, 4 Mar 2020
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Serendippily
Was that before or after she went for a burton?
Serendippily
Serendippily
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Serendippily
(Sorry)
McGoohan
McGoohan
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McGoohan
Fact. She wrote A View of the Harbour between takes in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. In one scene you can clearly see the typewriter in shot.
Diogenes
Diogenes
Mar 2020
7:50am, 4 Mar 2020
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Elizabeth Taylor, the writer, is much neglected but outstandingly good.

Next up for me, audiobook-wise, is either Sweet Sorrow, by David Nichols, or The Man In The Red Coat, by Julian Barnes. I heard the opening of the latter the other day and it’s really made me want to read it.
McGoohan
McGoohan
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7:51am, 4 Mar 2020
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So, you're willing to forgive him for er... I've forgotten which one it was again?
Columba
Columba
Mar 2020
8:27am, 4 Mar 2020
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Columba
I've read some Elizabeth Taylor, but not A View of the Harbour. And yes, agree she is really worth reading.
Columba
Columba
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8:47am, 4 Mar 2020
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Columba
Finished an escapist P. G. Wodehouse that I found on Son's bookshelf.
Diogenes
Diogenes
Mar 2020
9:12am, 4 Mar 2020
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Diogenes
For One Day. I hated that but liked the TV stuff he's been involved in.

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Unofficial books, underground discussion, MASSIVE SPOILERS.

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