Have a couple of posts half done and am trying to get them finished for posting on Random but my mind is a bit fuzzy at the moment. I am attaching a link to a really interesting article in the Telegraph a few days ago. Good to see that there are still these fascinating shops around. I am sure many did not make the list so if anybody has any favourites please post them here and I will write about them as well.
Content from the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph newspapers and video from Telegraph TV.
Oh and for future reference and preparing for my Oz trip next year - do any Australian visitors know of any good second hand browsing bookshops in Sydney?? I am pretty certain that Random Readers will know...
The eagle eyed among you will have noticed that I have had The Thirties by Juliet Gardiner on my Current Reading list for some time. It is a huge book, door stopper size and impossible to take in at once. Indeed, I would be doing the author a disservice if I tried to, so have been reading chapters over a period of at least three months. Now, I am finally going to post about it and that will be up soon.
Must mention another terrific book which I have just started. Work up at 4 am last night, wide awake, mind churning around and knew it was useless trying to get back to sleep. So, light on, cup of tea made and started to read The Maestro's Voice by Roland Vernon. Story of an Italian tenor in the 1920s from Naples, shades of Caruso methinks, and it is simply terrific and am loving it. So hope to get that up soon as well. Just published and even before posting I can recommend it.
OK that is it for today folks. Off to do various melancholy jobs today and your thoughts and kind comments are really helping me to keep going, so once again - thank you all.
