I am recently back from a holiday, partially in Barcelona and partially on a cruise. As when I was in London, I spent some of my time checking out the bookshops Barcelona has to offer.  I started at Hibernian, which claims to be the only secondhand English bookshop in Barcelona. The place is large – […]

I intended to post this much sooner but life has a way of forcibly adjusting plans. It has been so long that I had to go back through my bank account to see where I had actually been. Thankfully, I purchased a book at all but one stop so I left myself a sufficient paper […]

I recently went on a cruise.  Friends of mine got married on a ten-day Mediterranean cruise. Not sure I’ll be doing another cruise, but the ceremony was lovely and it was good to catch up with folks I haven’t seen since pre-Covid.  I, of course, spent lots of time laying by the pool (in the […]

Because I love a good reading goal and a good spreadsheet AND I love being an over-achiever, I’ve set myself a wild goal to read all of the winners (and, in some cases, shortlists) of a number of literary prizes. I started with the Nobel, the Booker Prize, the Pulitzer and the Hugo but somehow […]