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Covid day #2

Some light reading in August, with cats, three dogs, sheep through the ages, something romantic, Mma Ramotswe, ER detecting misdemeanours in the cellars of Buckingham Palace, Lost Words (for my reading group) and Marcovaldo in French.

The sheep book was eye-opening, Marcovaldo very entertaining; very much liked Lost Words because of the setting, mostly in Jericho, Oxford, where I lived and worked in a bookshop on Walton Street. I read the one about cats in Manchester Airport; it passed the time but I'm not going to rave about it.

Groningen | Гронинген, 06-06-2022.

Tom Cox | Ring the Hill. London, Unbound, 2019, 200 pages.

Van de elektronische achterflap:
A hill is not a mountain. You climb it for you, then you put it quietly inside you, in a cupboard marked 'Quite A Lot Of Hills' where it makes its infinitesimal mark on who you are. Ring the Hill is a book written around, and about, hills: it includes a northern hill, a hill that never ends and the smallest hill in England. Each chapter takes a type of hill - whether it's a knoll, cap, cliff, tor or even a mere bump - as a starting point for one of Tom's characteristically unpredictable and wide-ranging explorations. Tom's lyrical, candid prose roams from an intimate relationship with a particular cove on the south coast, to meditations on his great-grandmother and a lesson on what goes into the mapping of hills themselves. Because a good walk in the hills is never just about the hills: you never know where it might lead.

Tom Cox | 21st-Century Yokel
Tom Cox | Help the Witch
Tom Cox | Closed Encounters of the Furred Kind
Tom Cox | The Good, the Bad & the Furry
Tom Cox | Talk to the Tail

Tom Cox (English)

My Books set

Groningen | Гронинген, 03-06-2022.

Tom Cox | Help the Witch. London, Unbound, 2018, 138 pages.

Van de elektronische achterflap:
As night draws through country lanes, and darkness sweeps across hills and darkness sweeps across hills and hedgerows, shadows appear where figures are not; things do not remain in their places; a new home is punctured by abandoned objects; a watering hole conceals depths greater than its swimmers can fathom. Riddled with talismans and portents, saturated by shadows beneath trees and whispers behind doors, these ten stories broaden the scope of folk tales as we know them. Inspired by our native landscapes and traversing boundaries of the past and future, this collection is Tom Cox's first foray into fiction. Funny, strange and poignant, it elicits the unexpected and unseen to raise our hackles and set imaginations whirring.

Tom Cox | Ring the Hill
Tom Cox | 21st-Century Yokel
Tom Cox | Closed Encounters of the Furred Kind
Tom Cox | The Good, the Bad & the Furry
Tom Cox | Talk to the Tail

Tom Cox (English)

My Books set

Groningen | Гронинген, 18-09-2021.

Tom Cox | 21st-Century Yokel. London, Unbound, 2017 (1), 268 pages.

Van de elektronische achterflap:
21st-Century Yokel explores the way we can be tied inescapably to landscape, whether we like it or not, often through our family and our past. It's not quite a nature book, not quite a humour book, not quite a family memoir, not quite folklore, not quite social history, not quite a collection of essays, but a bit of all six. It contains owls, badgers, ponies, beavers, otters, bats, bees, scarecrows, dogs, ghosts, Tom's loud and excitable dad and, yes, even a few cats. It's full of Devon's local folklore - the ancient kind, and the everyday kind - and provincial places and small things. But what emerges from this focus on the small are themes that are broader and bigger and more definitive. The book's language is colloquial and easy and its eleven chapters are discursive and wide-ranging, rambling even. The feel of the book has a lot in common with the country walks Tom Cox was on when he composed much of it: it's bewitched by fresh air, intrepid in minor ways, haunted by weather and old stories and the spooky edges of the outdoors, restless, sometimes foolish, and prone to a few detours... but it always reaches its intended destination. The book is illustrated with Tom's own landscape photographs and linocuts by his mother.

Tom Cox | Ring the Hill
Tom Cox | Help the Witch
Tom Cox | Closed Encounters of the Furred Kind
Tom Cox | The Good, the Bad & the Furry
Tom Cox | Talk to the Tail

Tom Cox (English)

My Books set

That shield bug that landed on me whilst I was reading in the garden a couple of days ago wanted to know what I was reading. It was a book mostly about wildlife. Surprise.
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Groningen | Гронинген, 06-05-2020.

Tom Cox | Close Encounters of the Furred Kind. London, Sphere, 2015, 240 pages.

Tom Cox | Ring the Hill
Tom Cox | Help the Witch
Tom Cox | 21-st Century Yokel
Tom Cox | The Good, the Bad & the Furry
Tom Cox | Talk to the Tail

Tom Cox (English)

My Books set

trees

Groningen | Гронинген, 22-05-2015.

Tom Cox | The Good, the Bad & the Furry. London, Sphere, 2013, 170 pages.

Tom Cox | Ring the Hill
Tom Cox | Help the Witch
Tom Cox | 21-st Century Yokel
Tom Cox | Close Encounters of the Furred Kind
Tom Cox | Talk to the Tail

Tom Cox (English)

My Books set

WIS 1986

Participants: Tom Cox; Janet Ellzey; Catherine Ennis; Susan Farmer; Barbara Gessner; Tomas Grady; Gloria Hawkins; Virginia Hinshaw; Yvonne Karlsson; John Keenan; Cary Michaels; Dowell Myers; Robert Nicholas; Olov Ostberg; Shiela Reaves; Ross Swaney; Paul Terwilliger; Cliff Thompson; Joseph Warnemuende; Amy Warner; Linda Weimer; Holly Willett


Itinerary: Pendarvis House; Weier-Nook Farm; Masonic Temple; Silicon Sensors Tour; Villa Louis, Prairie du Chien Tour; Winnebago Mission Tour; Marshfield Agricultural Station; Marshfield Clinic; UW-Green Bay; Green Bay Packaging Inc. Tour; Palmer Johnson Tour; Tour of Door County; Energy Information Center Tour; UWC-Manitowoc; Kohler Industries Tour; Milwaukee Museum of Natural History; Mitchell Park Domes; Milwaukee Trade and Technical High School; Universal Foods Tour; General Motors, Janesville Tour; Wisconsin State Capitol

Groningen | Гронинген, 07-02-2016.

Tom Cox - Talk to the Tail: Adventures in Cat Ownership and Beyond. London, Simon & Schuster, 243 pages. 2011 (1).

Tom Cox | Ring the Hill
Tom Cox | Help the Witch
Tom Cox | 21-st Century Yokel
Tom Cox | Close Encounters of the Furred Kind
Tom Cox | The Good, the Bad & the Furry

Tom Cox (English)

My Books set

Philip Dewe's Farewell Party

Philip Dewe's Farewell Party