Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
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That is a fantastic result! Quality and variety definitely win over quantity—seeing a wider range of authors get some love is the perfect way to wrap up 2025. 📚✨ Huge thanks for organizing!
Check out the full breakdown on the blog. #booksky
Check out the full breakdown on the blog. #booksky
Dean Street December 2025 round-up. Slightly fewer reviews but more participants and more different authors read - so a triumph, in my opinion. librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/d... @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙
January 5, 2026 at 11:30 AM
That is a fantastic result! Quality and variety definitely win over quantity—seeing a wider range of authors get some love is the perfect way to wrap up 2025. 📚✨ Huge thanks for organizing!
Check out the full breakdown on the blog. #booksky
Check out the full breakdown on the blog. #booksky
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Dean Street December 2025 round-up. Slightly fewer reviews but more participants and more different authors read - so a triumph, in my opinion. librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/d... @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙
January 5, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Dean Street December 2025 round-up. Slightly fewer reviews but more participants and more different authors read - so a triumph, in my opinion. librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/d... @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙
On the Ramblings today - I reach the end of my Proust journey and share my thoughts on the final volume! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/r...
“…reading teaches us to take a more exalted view of the value of life…” #proust #timeregained
Back in 2014, in the early days of the blog, I embarked on a reading project – that of making my way through Marcel Proust’s epic seven volume series “Remembrance of Things Past/I…
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January 5, 2026 at 8:22 AM
On the Ramblings today - I reach the end of my Proust journey and share my thoughts on the final volume! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/r...
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Possibly just one for other Iris Murdoch obsessives - I've started reading through her again and doing some Thinking librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/b... #booksky 📚💙
January 3, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Possibly just one for other Iris Murdoch obsessives - I've started reading through her again and doing some Thinking librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/b... #booksky 📚💙
Happy 2026! On the blog today, some loose reading plans… kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/w...
Welcoming 2026 with some loose reading plans!
Happy New Year!! Following my look back at 2025 in reading, I thought I would contemplate the future a little! It’s always fun to make plans and assemble piles of possible reads, even if you …
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January 1, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Happy 2026! On the blog today, some loose reading plans… kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/w...
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After the Unbound disaster, @swiftpress.bsky.social published Everything Will Swallow You in Sept and have now also published 1983 in paperback, and republished Villager, Ring The Hill, Help The Witch and 21st-Century Yokel, and will be republishing Notebook in April.
December 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
After the Unbound disaster, @swiftpress.bsky.social published Everything Will Swallow You in Sept and have now also published 1983 in paperback, and republished Villager, Ring The Hill, Help The Witch and 21st-Century Yokel, and will be republishing Notebook in April.
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Happy New Year!
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December 31, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Part Two of my review of the year looks back at the best books from July to December :)
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The Best of 2025 – July to December
After looking back at the best books of the first half of 2025 in yesterday’s post, today I’m wrapping up the year by taking another look at those that impressed in the second six month…
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December 31, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Part Two of my review of the year looks back at the best books from July to December :)
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It’s the last day of 2025 so on the blog today I look back on my reading highlights of the year! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/l...
Looking back on 2025!
Well, it’s that time of the year again when I like to take a look back at my reading and blogging, and 2025 is no different! It’s been a difficult year around the world, with awful conf…
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December 31, 2025 at 8:51 AM
It’s the last day of 2025 so on the blog today I look back on my reading highlights of the year! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/l...
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“The crush at the station was unimaginable. Troop trains were occupying nearly all the lines. We didn’t know whether they were just arriving or just departing. They probably didn’t even know themselves." #BookSky 💙📚 #NYRBWomen25
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Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi (tr. R Chandler, E Chandler AM Jackson & I Steinberg)
Born in St. Petersburg in 1872, Teffi (Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya) went on to become a celebrated writer in early 20th-century Russia, publishing poems, short stories, satirical sketches and plays to gr…
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December 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
“The crush at the station was unimaginable. Troop trains were occupying nearly all the lines. We didn’t know whether they were just arriving or just departing. They probably didn’t even know themselves." #BookSky 💙📚 #NYRBWomen25
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On the blog today, my contribution to #deanstreetdecember25 is an entertaining crime debut! @deanstpress.bsky.social More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/a...
An entertaining mystery debut – for #DeanStreetDecember25
For the last couple of years, lovely Liz from Adventures in reading, writing and working from home has hosted an event focusing on the books released by the indie publisher, Dean Street Press. They…
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December 29, 2025 at 8:27 AM
On the blog today, my contribution to #deanstreetdecember25 is an entertaining crime debut! @deanstpress.bsky.social More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/a...
On the Ramblings today! Gratuitous pictures of books as I share some festive arrivals! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/12/28/a...
A little (well – large!) round up of December arrivals!!
December is always a month which sees lots of books making their way past security and finding their way into the Ramblings. Not only is there Christmas, but I also have a birthday earlier in the m…
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December 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
On the Ramblings today! Gratuitous pictures of books as I share some festive arrivals! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/12/28/a...
On the Ramblings today - a little post Christmas #moomin construction! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/a...
A little post-Christmas construction! #moomins
If you’re a regular on the Ramblings, you might recall that last Christmas, Eldest Child presented me with a Lego Book Nook as a gift, and I shared the building process here on the blog. He i…
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December 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
On the Ramblings today - a little post Christmas #moomin construction! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/a...
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The second part of my books of the year, focusing on novels in translation:
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Books of the Year 2025 Part 2
Badenheim 1939 by Aharon Appelfeld Most of my favourite translated reads are new to English, but Aharon Appelfeld’s Badenheim 1939 first appeared in 1978 and was translated by David R Godine in 198…
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December 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The second part of my books of the year, focusing on novels in translation:
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On the Ramblings today - a little post Christmas #moomin construction! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/a...
A little post-Christmas construction! #moomins
If you’re a regular on the Ramblings, you might recall that last Christmas, Eldest Child presented me with a Lego Book Nook as a gift, and I shared the building process here on the blog. He i…
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December 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM
On the Ramblings today - a little post Christmas #moomin construction! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/a...
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Just read another Agatha Christie, 'Five Little Pigs'. Poirot tries to solve a 16-year old case, where the trail has run cold. But he manages to get a list of suspects 😊
My review is here.
#AgathaChristie #HerculePoirot
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My review is here.
#AgathaChristie #HerculePoirot
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Book Review – Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
After reading one Agatha Christie, I was inspired to read another. I picked this one, ‘Five Little Pigs’. In this story, a young woman comes to see Poirot. She tells him that recently s…
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December 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Just read another Agatha Christie, 'Five Little Pigs'. Poirot tries to solve a 16-year old case, where the trail has run cold. But he manages to get a list of suspects 😊
My review is here.
#AgathaChristie #HerculePoirot
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My review is here.
#AgathaChristie #HerculePoirot
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On the blog today, I explore a recently released anthology of the Lake Poets from @nottinghilleds.bsky.social - it's a stunner! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/t...
“This group of youthful radicals…” #thelakepoets
If you mention Wordsworth or the Lake Poets nowadays, you might hear them dismissed as sappy romantics writing pretty verse about daffodils; yet, as a new anthology from Notting Hill Editions revea…
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December 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
On the blog today, I explore a recently released anthology of the Lake Poets from @nottinghilleds.bsky.social - it's a stunner! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/t...
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Spoiler: this magical record by Twice As Much and Vashti is the subject of the next instalment of Inventory, arriving on - yes! - Christmas Eve via www.patreon.com/backlisted. @backlisted.bsky.social
Another Christmas song that isn't a Christmas song.
Vashti Bunyan & Twice As Much
Coldest Night of the Year
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Vashti Bunyan & Twice As Much
Coldest Night of the Year
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Vashti Bunyan - Coldest Night Of The Year
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December 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Spoiler: this magical record by Twice As Much and Vashti is the subject of the next instalment of Inventory, arriving on - yes! - Christmas Eve via www.patreon.com/backlisted. @backlisted.bsky.social
On the Ramblings today, my second nomination for Crime Reprint of the Year, and this time it’s a dramatic and memorable title from @blpublishing.bsky.social - kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/r...
Reprint of the Year Award 2025 – nomination 2
As I mentioned when I presented my first nomination for this year’s title, British Library Publishing do issues stellar array of Crime Classics, all presented in beautiful jackets and one of …
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December 20, 2025 at 8:45 AM
On the Ramblings today, my second nomination for Crime Reprint of the Year, and this time it’s a dramatic and memorable title from @blpublishing.bsky.social - kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/r...
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Up on the blog today, thoughts on favourite #naturewriting authors/books + a review of #RobertMacfarlane 's excellent account of his journeys to the cloud forest of Ecuador, 3 rivers of Chennai, & rafting the threatened Mutehekau Shipu, Canada.
Is a River Alive?
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Is a River Alive?
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Is A River Alive by Robert Macfarlane
Though I really enjoy nature writing of the creative nonfiction kind, I had never read a book by Robert Macfarlane. I’d heard of The Old Ways, but steered away from what I perceived was a ver…
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December 19, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Up on the blog today, thoughts on favourite #naturewriting authors/books + a review of #RobertMacfarlane 's excellent account of his journeys to the cloud forest of Ecuador, 3 rivers of Chennai, & rafting the threatened Mutehekau Shipu, Canada.
Is a River Alive?
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Is a River Alive?
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Audio readings of some of Saki’s stories are available on BBC Sounds - including THE OPEN WINDOW, which is one of my favourites! #BookSky 💙📚 #Saki
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December 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Audio readings of some of Saki’s stories are available on BBC Sounds - including THE OPEN WINDOW, which is one of my favourites! #BookSky 💙📚 #Saki
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On the Ramblings today - my thoughts on a stunning new biography of #VictorSerge from @plutopress.bsky.social - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/t...
“The truth is never fixed…” #victorserge #plutopress #DoorstoppersInDecember
As I mentioned in my post on Victor Serge’s “Unforgiving Years”, this was a book I’d been hoping to get to all year. However, when I finally picked it up at the end of Novem…
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December 18, 2025 at 8:26 AM
On the Ramblings today - my thoughts on a stunning new biography of #VictorSerge from @plutopress.bsky.social - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/t...
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Today on my blog: In The Spotlight: Viveca Sten’s Hidden in Snow – Crime Writer Margot Kinberg share.google/57v1rpT9Fm4n...
In The Spotlight: Viveca Sten’s Hidden in Snow
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December 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Today on my blog: In The Spotlight: Viveca Sten’s Hidden in Snow – Crime Writer Margot Kinberg share.google/57v1rpT9Fm4n...
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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” – Northanger Abbey
#JaneAusten (born 16 December 1775)
#JaneAusten (born 16 December 1775)
December 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” – Northanger Abbey
#JaneAusten (born 16 December 1775)
#JaneAusten (born 16 December 1775)