Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
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Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
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Loves books and arts and culture and vegan food, and sharing thoughts about them! Blogs at https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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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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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
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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 - Coldest Night Of The Year
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December 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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
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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 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
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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
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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
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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)
December 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM