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Highgate Cemetery

October 6, 2022

A cemetery plot could be considered one’s last, best piece of real estate so an impressive address was in demand. Set along a slope overlooking London proper, Highgate Cemetery was a quiet but imposing reminder of mortality.

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REVIEW: Murder’s A Swine

January 5, 2022

Nap Lombard wrote this novel set in Blitz London while they were living it. In fact, they were air-raid wardens themselves — the simultaneous monotony and chaos of inspired their writing.

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31 Days of Halloween – October 14

October 14, 2018

I love going to visit old cemeteries; it’s so quiet and peaceful. There is amazing history to be discovered just by walking through.

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REVIEW: DEAR MRS. BIRD

June 14, 2018

Emmy has been hired to help sort reader letters for the advice columnist Mrs. Bird. A gruff, old-fashioned woman, she refuses to answer anything that references the “unpleasantness,” so Emmy begins to write her own replies.

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Books for March

March 6, 2017

With absurd hauteur / New tulips dab their shadows / In water-mutter. ~ Richard Kenney Books for March: New titles from Marcus Sedgwick and Lucy Ribchester, and a reissue from Frances Hardinge.

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