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Saw EPiC, the Elvis concert movie, today and it's wonderful. Absolutely one to see in theatres, ideally with someone who will dance in their seat alongside you.
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I am finally reading again! Always such a relief to come out of a slump. thecaptivereader.com/2026/02/26/l...
So nice of you to reach out! I'd recommend starting with the plays. The Dover Road, Mr Pim Passes By, and The Ugly Duckling are three of my favourites. The Rabbits stories have also recently been collected into a single volume, which would be another great place to begin.
Perhaps a nod to Norway's historic dominance of winter games?
When all but 8 teams are tied with 0 medals, it's time for anarchy in the Globe & Mail medal count list. Who needs alphabetization?
Beautiful frosty, foggy morning with hopeful signs of spring
New review: Keeping an Eye Open by Julian Barnes thecaptivereader.com/2026/01/11/k...
Letter from Walter Gropius to Martin Wagner from 1934 describing Gropius' first impressions of England. To Gropius, as to modern visitors, the British aversion to efficient heating and good food is incomprehensible but he finds "the humaneness here is so attractive."
Excellent epigraph to start Owen Hatherley's The Aliention Effect, about Central Europeans who came to Britain between the wars and the impact they made
Twelve excellent months of reading and it all boils down to this: my Top Ten Books of 2025 thecaptivereader.com/2025/12/31/t...
I'm devoted to the Quo Vadis Trinote
Twelve excellent months of reading and it all boils down to this: my Top Ten Books of 2025 thecaptivereader.com/2025/12/31/t...
The Victoria Glendinning bio is excellent!
Paperback copies of three novels by Diane Pearson: Csardas, Voices of Summer, and The Summer of the Barshinskeys
What fun you can have for less than $10 at a good used bookstore! I went in looking for Csardas (all fine bookstores have at least one copy), was delighted to find favourite Voices of Summer (about an operetta festival in an Austrian village), & picked up the Barshinskeys because why not?
Well this is lovely!
Christmas Eve Library Loot, featuring my favourite seasonal reread: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
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My stacks of library books at home are approaching danger-to-health levels...so I added a few more thecaptivereader.com/2025/12/17/l...
You came to the right person! I lived there for 2.5 years (it's where I was when I started blogging)
Chart from The Economist showing the annual income in 1798 of various professions and of Jane Austen characters
Happy birthday to Jane Austen, and to this very on-brand Economist chart
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This week's Library Loot (delayed by Margaret Atwood, disturber of schedules) thecaptivereader.com/2025/12/10/l...
Who needs a top 10 list when you could have almost 400 book recommendations? Always deadly for my TBR.
Cover of The Rose Field by Philip Pullman
Was my top priority on my vacation day travelling to a neighboring city, signing up for their library system, and borrowing a single book - all to avoid the months-long wait across all the other library systems I'm part of?
Obviously.
A cow who is feeling happy because I have taken the photo it will use for the cover of its psychedelic debut LP which it feels confident will get a five out of five star rating in Rolling Stone magazine.
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent cattle I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
She's speaking here in Vancouver in early December and I'm so excited to hear her!
Superb timing! I was fast but not fast enough - 4th in the queue.
