by Graeme Cumming | Sep 13, 2021 | Book Reviews, Events |
Way back in the olden days when the words Covid, furlough and lateral-flow didn’t form part of our daily vocabulary, authors went out on the road and saw their readers. They even talked to them and signed books and generally felt connected. As the rules around the...
by Graeme Cumming | Jul 19, 2021 | Independent Bookshops, Literary Festivals, Thinking Aloud |
In February last year (although in many respects it feels like a lot longer ago), I had the opportunity to go to a couple of events organised by one of the few remaining independent book shops in Nottinghamshire – The Book Case in Lowdham. The first event saw Ann...
by Graeme Cumming | Jul 9, 2021 | Book Reviews, Independent Bookshops |
I wrote recently about the first couple of books in the Charlie Fox series. At the time, I said I was considering going back to an old practice of mine, which was to pick an author and read everything of theirs I could get my hands on. Having spread myself quite...
by Graeme Cumming | Jun 4, 2021 | Book Reviews, Events, Meetings |
In recent years, my reading habits have changed. My motives are good. I wanted to broaden the range of authors and genres I was reading – and I have. In the past, I used to find an author I liked and then read everything they had until I’d exhausted their back...
by Graeme Cumming | May 28, 2021 | Book Reviews |
I’d recently prepared a review of the second book in Zoe Sharp’s Charlie Fox series, and was all set to cross-reference it to my review of Killer Instinct. And then I realised that, for reasons that completely elude me now, I didn’t share one after...
by Graeme Cumming | May 21, 2021 | Blogging, Gogglebox, The Gigging Years |
It’s about 4 weeks since I made the decision to get back to putting stuff out on my blog regularly. Since the beginning of the year, I hadn’t really been paying that much attention to it, so hadn’t noticed what was going on in terms of the stats. To be fair, my stats...
