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Checking in with another update re this. A bit ahead of the end of the month, because although I have several books well underway I won't finish any of them before April. I've just finished 2 more books since last time, and have included a cut over the earlier ones. The NHS book was good, but overly long for me, and some of the contributions seriously missed the point, and were far too self centred. It was also sad to read all the earnest thoughts about how much people appreciate the NHS (this book was written in the height of the pandemic), only for many thoughts like that, including government treatment of doctors and nurses etc. (especially in England) to plummet since. I loved the DWJ book, and read it for the book club I'm in.


  1. Wenceslas: A Christmas Poem by Carol Ann Duffy
  2. The Children of Hurin by JRR Tolkien
  3. The Incomplete Framley Examiner
  4. Once Upon A Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire
  5. The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah
  6. The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
  7. What You Are Looking For Is In The Library by Michiko Aoyama
  8. The Ghost Cat: 12 decades, 9 lives, 1 cat by Alex Howard
  9. Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You edited by Adam Kay
  10. Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Date: 2024-03-28 11:33 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] watervole
I'm glad you liked Howl - he's far more Welsh in the book, if I remember correctly.

Date: 2024-04-05 03:00 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] a_cubed
The anime is very different in many ways. It's solidly single fantasy world rather than a crossover with the real world. DWJ, apparently, loved the anime, though.

Date: 2024-04-05 02:59 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] a_cubed
Interesting interaction between the cut and enumerated list markup here. When the cut is closed Dear NHS is No. 1 and Howl is No. 2. When the cut is open, they're No.s 9 and 10.

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