About Miss Darcy's Library
I love books - buying books, reading books, discussing books, and generally admiring them from all angles (except the e-book).
I also love tea, roses, and my dogs, and seldom pass up an opportunity to slip them into the conversation.
Yesterday, the Globe Theatre in London asked its Twitter followers which words from Shakespeare had always stuck with them and which quotes inspired them. It’s the sort of question that lights a gleam in my eye – a speculative, ruminative, … Continue reading →
The summer before my senior year of high school, we moved from Washington DC to Moscow. It was the first time my father had been posted to a non-English speaking country since Japan in the early eighties, and the biggest … Continue reading →
And so, another school year is under way. While I did not relish sitting through endless, tedious start-of-term meetings, and bidding adieu to mornings in bed is proving to be a wrench, it has been fun catching up with colleagues … Continue reading →
Posted in Audiobooks, Book Reviews, Non-Fiction
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Tagged Audiobooks, Christopher Timothy, Dales, England, James Herriot, memoirs, Siegfried Farnon, veterinary surgeon, Yorkshire
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A little while ago, I finally got around to reading Tracy Chevalier’s 2013 novel The Last Runaway, which tells the story of Honor Bright, a young Quaker woman who leaves England to start a new life in Ohio in … Continue reading →
My dearest friend recently moved to Paris. To the heart of the Marais neighbourhood, no less, where, across a cobblestoned courtyard and up six flights of steep, winding stairs, he occupies a charming, light-filled flat, all honey-coloured wood floors and … Continue reading →
Posted in Around the Tea-Table, Quills
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Tagged Bloomsbury, Carrington, Charleston, Ham Spray, Hogarth Press, John Maynard Keynes, Lydia Lopokhova, Lytton Strachey, Monk's House, Omega Workshops, Rosamond Lehmann, Tidmarsh Mill, Virginia Woolf
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Ever since I finished my novel, a few weeks ago, I have been mulling over what I should do next. The task of finding an agent willing to represent me (never mind actually landing a book deal!) is rather daunting. … Continue reading →
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