J A Brunning

RIBBLE BABEL - verbiage and verbage from J A Brunning on the banks of the River Ribble

Friday, 10 July 2020

The Salt Path - Raynor Winn

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"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them."

Lemony Snicket Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

Master Nalgah - courtesy & ©Darren Chapman www.nottsbirders.net

“If you are a student you should always get a good night's sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside...”
― Lemony Snicket

Book Reviews

All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
The Yellow Birds - Kevin Powers
The Confabulist - Steven Galloway
Malkin Child - Livi Michael
King Crow - Michael Stewart
iBoy - Kevin Brooks

“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”

― Lemony Snicket

“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

"Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another."

- Lemony Snicket

Favourite Reads include...

Kevin Powers - The Yellow Birds

Kate Atkinson - Life After Life

Jon McGregor - if nobody speaks of remarkable things

Hubert Mingarelli - A Meal in Winter

Robert Macfarlane - The Old Ways

Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory

Daniel Woodrell - Winter's Bone

W. G. Sebald - The Emigrants

Markus Zusack - The Book Thief

Sadie Jones - The Outsider

Rachel Joyce - Perfect

Melissa Harrison - Clay
Melissa Harrison - At Hawthorn Time

Louisa Young - My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You

“A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

babel

: an ancient city in the land of Shinar in which the building of a tower intended to reach heaven was begun and the confusion of the language of the people took place.

babble

- to utter sounds or words imperfectly, indistinctly, incoherently.

- to reveal foolishly or thoughtlessly: to babble a secret.

what I'm listening to while I'm writing...

Helios - Eingya

Max Richter - Memoryhouse

Brian McBride - The Effective Disconnect

Eluvium - Copia

The Library Tapes

my daughter playing Einaudi's Nightbook

Jóhann Jóhannsson - and in the endless pause there came the sound of bees

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Apparently...!

I write like
Neil Gaiman

I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!

ha ha, great fun this! - and no, I wouldn't have shared the result if it said Jeffrey Archer. It also says I write like Margaret Atwood, Ernest Hemingway, Ursula Le Guin, Mark Twain, Shakespeare, and Douglas Adams. Must be one really weird read.