tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post6974739594263382129..comments2024-03-28T19:03:24.043+00:00Comments on THE SMALL THINGS: Ordinary life.Tania Kindersleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18355967725006605825noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-73675257407398084572015-06-30T21:48:26.461+01:002015-06-30T21:48:26.461+01:00Dylan, sympathies on your phantom pain.Dylan, sympathies on your phantom pain.Marchelinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11201825708442679157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-72001989201863855622015-06-27T20:50:18.084+01:002015-06-27T20:50:18.084+01:00But you just made that comment on the internet, Dy...But you just made that comment on the internet, Dylan!<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-83843642803631530352015-06-27T18:30:26.606+01:002015-06-27T18:30:26.606+01:00How C21st - someone writing at length on the inter...How C21st - someone writing at length on the internet about why they haven't been on the internet for a bit. Something has gone seriously wrong. Whatever happened to the quiet, gentle, personal, unexpressed thought? Everything has to be "out there" including "not being out there"!<br /><br />My brain hurts!<br /><br />DylanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-47759347931393801912015-06-26T21:11:38.288+01:002015-06-26T21:11:38.288+01:00Its always wonderful to see you here, I completely...Its always wonderful to see you here, I completely understand the taking of breaks, mine's been a very long one, I just dip my toe in every now and then. xox So Lovelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16090206663800207951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-49284670425149352642015-06-26T16:31:13.424+01:002015-06-26T16:31:13.424+01:00Ploughing my way through as much Hilary Mantell as...Ploughing my way through as much Hilary Mantell as I can lay my hand to, buying all her ancient back catalogue secondhand on eBay and and chortling at her wickedly vicious intelligence. She has a forensic mind, she takes human beings apart with a scalpel. I am in awe.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13702475308562601190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-63272355146610453512015-06-26T13:42:32.092+01:002015-06-26T13:42:32.092+01:00I'm scared to go back to Middlemarch - what if...I'm scared to go back to Middlemarch - what if I don't love it as much as I remember loving it the first time - but Austen? Such an obvious solution to my current inability to focus on a novel. A friend in need. Shelter from the storm. And probably easily available (since my own copies are boxed up somewhere in a different country). So thanks for the reminder! I've been trying to read The Left Hand of Darkness but it depresses me. Even Sir Terry (Raising Steam) can't lift me up. But dear old Jane just might...Tuulinoreply@blogger.com