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Are audiobooks cheating?

April 2, 2013 By Ellen

Pleased to meet you: The moment when Jean Paget claps eyes on Joe Harman in the 1956 film of A Town  Like Alice I’ve been taking my mind off the discomfort of my 10K training by listening to talking books.So far I’ve plodded my way through Dawn French’s Oh Dear Sylvia (a good tale that […]

Filed Under: 10k running, A Town Like Alice, Anna Stothard., audiobooks, Barbara Kingsolver, books, Dawn French, Denise Mina, reading, talking books

Scotland to Cornwall – 569 miles to misery… or not?

June 14, 2012 By Ellen

 This year the residents of the Palace of Bundance are going to pack up their Lego, Men in Black figurines (is a figurine just a toy that doesn’t do anything?), their cake icing partworks and set off for Cornwall for the annual expedition. Can you imagine a camel caravans laden and clanking and covering the desert […]

Filed Under: books, children, children's books, Cornwall, drive, holiday, motorway, talking books

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