Monthly Archives: April 2025

Anderson-Wheeler Claire. The Gatsby Gambit. Penguin Random House New York 2025. F; 4/25. This new murder mystery is based on Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, similarly to but more directly than the way A Thousand Acres by Smiley and The Hours … Continue reading →

Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Scribner’s New York 1926. F; 4/25. This is the first time I’ve read this but I remember the bulls in Pamplona in the 1957 movie with Tyrone Power and Ava Gardner, which I saw … Continue reading →

April 2025 Me just back from a month in France Robin and I spent two days and nights here debriefing. This food review will include the accommodation. The harbour house built in around 1920 was a family home, taken over … Continue reading →