Read: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart ★★★★☆ set in my home town powerful stuff. Growing up poor with an alcoholic mother Shuggie didn’t have to look for his troubles, chinks of hope shut down one after the other.
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Walliams ... alone accounted for 14.4% of HarperCollins’ £133m revenue last year, and singlehandedly sold a third of the top 50 children’s books of the year: 2.4m copies from 11 books, compared to 4.7m between the rest.
Interesting read on the children’s book market. The point that children do not usually choose their books, parents do, reminds me of the idea most men’s books are Christmas presents.
Most of the books I read are ones my wife has read. This is not at all a bad thing.
Watched: St Francis ★★★★☆ I laughed a lot. 🎥
We went to The Necropolis for a walk this morning. It surprisingly quiet compared to the park. Or maybe the “graveyards in a pandemic” effect.
Saw a sparrow hawk going through the trees & stones.
Later geese over Glasgow Cathedral, should have brought a camera.
Just a thought.
Red Dawn in the playground this morning.
Victoria Park Pond, Scots pines reflected
bava (daily.ds106.us)“Five Senses” flickr photo by TheNickster shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license Look around and notice: 5 things you see 4 things you feel 3 things you hear 2 things you smell OR 1 thing you taste Now tell us about them
#tdc3243 #ds106 The first bright day for a while
See: waterfowl, runners, dog walkers, autumn leaves & a blue sky
Feel: Winter sun, frustrated, crowded, thankful
Hear: chatter, traffic, playground kids
Smell: Cold water, winter coming
Taste: tail of my after lunch coffee
Pine
Read: Pine by Francine Toon ★★★★☆ “Gothic Horror” is well out of my usual reading zone, but I enjoyed the slow introduction of the hopeless father & his daughter in the highlands. 📚
#mbnov border. At the moment my borders have shrunk to the Glasgow city council limits. This keeps me away from places that are both close and close to my heart.