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Gimbling in the Wabe – Curling Up With a Good Book, Redoux

Published on : 6 February, 20156 February, 2015 Published by : Sharon Browning

This is a reworking of a Gimbling in the Wabe I wrote in back in 2013, but it felt especially relevant today as the temperature here took a nose dive. The Mighty Belle and I still made it out to the Lake of the Isles, though! I hope you’ll allow […]

On this day, October 29, in 1954, James Dover Grant – known by the pen name Lee Child – was born in Coventry, Warwickshire, England. Best known for his Jack Reacher novel series, which follows the adventures of a former American military policeman who wanders the United States (25 books and counting!) he was honored as Author of the Year by the British Book Awards in 2019, for his lifetime achievement, as well as being appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to literature. Pretty good for a fellow who started writing after being made redundant in his job due to corporate restructuring! Today, he turns 66.

On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.

Gimbling in the Wabe – Curling Up With a Good Book, Redoux

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