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Well this is lovely!
I am finishing Gyles Brandreth's new biography of A A Milne - and look at the acknowledgements, @thecaptivereader.bsky.social !!!
December 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Well this is lovely!
Christmas Eve Library Loot, featuring my favourite seasonal reread: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
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Library Loot: December 24 to 30
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December 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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...
Library Loot: December 17 to 23
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December 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Happy birthday to Jane Austen, and to this very on-brand Economist chart
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December 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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...
Library Loot: December 10 to 16
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December 11, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Who needs a top 10 list when you could have almost 400 book recommendations? Always deadly for my TBR.
More is more. We’ve got 380 (or so) of our favorite new books, right here:
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
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November 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Who needs a top 10 list when you could have almost 400 book recommendations? Always deadly for my TBR.
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.
Obviously.
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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.
Obviously.
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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.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
This week's library loot: thecaptivereader.com/2025/11/12/l...
Library Loot: November 12 to 18
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November 13, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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I did not anticipate that the highlight of my weekend would be a 41-year-old history of Ottawa around the time of confederation but here we are
November 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I did not anticipate that the highlight of my weekend would be a 41-year-old history of Ottawa around the time of confederation but here we are
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Fresh Library Loot thecaptivereader.com/2025/10/29/l...
Library Loot: October 29 to November 4
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October 29, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Library Loot: October 1 to 7
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October 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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I spent a fantastic week in Iceland earlier this year (during a heatwave!) and finally shared some photos and thoughts
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Europe 2025: Iceland
Cool fall weather – and rain! glorious rain! – has finally arrived here after a long, warm summer and I am delighted. But summer felt especially long for me as it began in, of all place…
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September 30, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I spent a fantastic week in Iceland earlier this year (during a heatwave!) and finally shared some photos and thoughts
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This feels such a loss, a fine athlete and by all accounts I ever heard, a fine man.
Part of a generation of hockey fans’ memories. That image, as the P.M. says here, of him casually leaning, from a great height, on his stick.
Those Habs were ‘my’ team, he was their bulwark. Rest In Peace, sir.
Part of a generation of hockey fans’ memories. That image, as the P.M. says here, of him casually leaning, from a great height, on his stick.
Those Habs were ‘my’ team, he was their bulwark. Rest In Peace, sir.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s tribute to Montreal Canadiens legend Ken Dryden:
September 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
This feels such a loss, a fine athlete and by all accounts I ever heard, a fine man.
Part of a generation of hockey fans’ memories. That image, as the P.M. says here, of him casually leaning, from a great height, on his stick.
Those Habs were ‘my’ team, he was their bulwark. Rest In Peace, sir.
Part of a generation of hockey fans’ memories. That image, as the P.M. says here, of him casually leaning, from a great height, on his stick.
Those Habs were ‘my’ team, he was their bulwark. Rest In Peace, sir.
A journey to Hell, a Byzantine slave, a classic Western, an Icelandic mystery, a frustrated music teacher, and life in the south of France: this week's Library Loot thecaptivereader.com/2025/09/03/l...
Library Loot: September 3 to 9
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September 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
A journey to Hell, a Byzantine slave, a classic Western, an Icelandic mystery, a frustrated music teacher, and life in the south of France: this week's Library Loot thecaptivereader.com/2025/09/03/l...
Is there any better end of summer tradition than an agricultural fair? This one had a rodeo but, let's be serious, can that beat the excitement of finding out who arranged the most attractive sheaf of wheat?
September 2, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Is there any better end of summer tradition than an agricultural fair? This one had a rodeo but, let's be serious, can that beat the excitement of finding out who arranged the most attractive sheaf of wheat?
My summer luxury has been leaving a blanket at the office so each lunch hour I can take it and a book to a nearby park. Reading under a tree on a hot day is always idyllic but there's something especially wonderful and transgressive when it's sandwiched between hours of playing with Excel.
August 28, 2025 at 2:43 AM
My summer luxury has been leaving a blanket at the office so each lunch hour I can take it and a book to a nearby park. Reading under a tree on a hot day is always idyllic but there's something especially wonderful and transgressive when it's sandwiched between hours of playing with Excel.
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Almost Perfect: on Dorothy Evelyn Smith's "O, The Brave Music"
Almost Perfect: Dorothy Evelyn Smith, ‘O, The Brave Music’
Sometimes I think that was the happiest day of my life, those hours of heat and silence and colour, alone with David high up on the moor. But then I remember that I have said that of many other day…
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August 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Almost Perfect: on Dorothy Evelyn Smith's "O, The Brave Music"
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Library Loot: August 20 to 26
Sharlene from Real Life Reading that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal …
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August 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Library Loot: August 6 to 12
Sharlene from Real Life Reading that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal …
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August 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Library Loot: July 23 to 29
Sharlene from Real Life Reading that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal …
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July 24, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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A time-travelling detective, amateur theatrics, a loner math teacher finds love, a grandfather tries to save his family from a Christian militia, a not-quite-memoir, and essays on food and farming: this week in my Library Loot
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Library Loot: July 9 to 15
Sharlene from Real Life Reading that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal …
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July 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
A time-travelling detective, amateur theatrics, a loner math teacher finds love, a grandfather tries to save his family from a Christian militia, a not-quite-memoir, and essays on food and farming: this week in my Library Loot
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I heard zero enthusiasm for Robertson Davies from the adults in my life while growing up so never read him. Surprise: he is funny!
July 7, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I heard zero enthusiasm for Robertson Davies from the adults in my life while growing up so never read him. Surprise: he is funny!