Bookwise 2025/4 ‘Decadent Youth’ (1899) by Ramon Casas. This month my post ‘Why do I read?’ stimulated some fascinating discussion, though luckily nobody saw it indulgent or even, as in the…

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Reading progress during April, with #1952Club, #ReadingTheTheatre, and #ReadingAusten2025.
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Pain comes again:  #ReadingTheTheatre © C A Lovegrove. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two by Jack Thorne, John Tiffany and J K Rowling. Sphere / Little, Brown, 2017 (2016). “Harry, there is never a perfect answe…

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Review of 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two' (2016) by Jack Thorne, John Tiffany and J K Rowling. #BookSky
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The stage is set: #ReadingTheTheatre © C A Lovegrove. Every April – the month in which Shakespeare was both born and died – I try to read at least one book which involves theatrical matters before reviewing it. It might for example be…

April is a good month to read fiction, biographies, playscripts and studies about theatre, drama and those who tread the boards.
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Mischiefs feed like beasts Doorknocker © C A Lovegrove Volpone, [or The Foxe: A Comedie] by Ben Jonson (1606-7). Edited by Philip Brockbank. New Mermaids: A & C Black / W W Norton & Company, 1989 (1969). 'Riches, the dumb god, ...

"Mischiefs feed like beasts": review of 'Volpone, or The Foxe: A Comedie' by Ben Jonson for #ReadingTheTheatre. wp.me/p2oNj1-84R

A fearful thing: #ReadingTheTheatre © C A Lovegrove. Magic Flutes by Eva Ibbotson. Also issued as The Reluctant Heiress (2009).Young Picador, 2008 (1982). 'I believed it. I believed it all,' said Tessa. 'That you served music, all of yo...

Magic Flutes by #EvaIbbotson.
Also issued as The Reluctant Heiress (2009).
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