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Author Archives: Fiona
My 2022 in books and Blyton
This is my third time of assessing what I read the previous year in a blog post. Every year I set some reading goals. The main one is how many books – I generally start with a goal of 100 … Continue reading
Monday #511
January is rushing past us, though I generally still feel like it’s only a week past New Year. Saying that, it feels like winter has dragged on forever (as it always does in January). According to Google meteorological winter ends … Continue reading
Posted in Blog talk, Other Authors
Tagged Five Have Plenty of Character, January, Monday, Vanessa Tobin
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2022 birthday and Christmas present round up
Every year I am lucky to get at least a few Blytonian gifts between my December birthday and Christmas. In fact, each year I am amazed to still get Blytonian gifts as sometimes it feels as if those that know … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Experiences
Tagged Birthday Presents, Christmas Presents, Gifts, Presents
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Monday #510
For once I have an actual list of posts to write/post and have had to work out the best order to use them. Those should last me for at least a few weeks, then I will likely return to scrambling … Continue reading
Five Have a Mystery to Solve part 2
Last time I talked a bit about the places and people the story was based on and how annoying I find Wilfrid. Now on to more of the plot (perhaps!) Mistakes and foolish decisions I think the reason this is … Continue reading
Monday #509
We have skipped from Monday #505 straight to Monday #509 as I took an unannounced (and longer than anticipated) Christmas break. Nothing untoward happened – I just had so much on and decided to down tools a bit early. This … Continue reading
The Five as you have never seen them before, part 3
I’ve done a couple of posts already, each showing a few illustrations by Eileen Soper which although look like they could be depicting the Five are in fact from other books entirely. So here’s another one! (Soper was quite prolific … Continue reading
Five Have a Mystery to Solve
I am now at book 20 of 21! It has only taken a little over four years. But here I am, at the penultimate book, and my second least-favourite of the series. I’m not entirely sure why I think so … Continue reading
Posted in Blog talk
Tagged Brownsea Island, Five Have a Mystery to Solve, Poole, The Famous Five
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An updated round-up of Christmas posts 2022
It has been a few years since I did one of these posts, and I managed to post quite a few Christmassy things since then. There’s plenty to visit, or revisit, so I hope this makes up for me not … Continue reading
November 2022 round up
What I have read I didn’t manage to read an awful lot in November as I was ill for over a week and didn’t read anything at all other than listening to one audiobook. But as I hit my goal … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Experiences
Tagged Doing, Monthly round up, November, Reading, Round Up, Watching
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Monday #503
Here we are in the last week of November already. We didn’t wait for December to put our Christmas tree up. We put it up yesterday which was the first Sunday of Advent. I’m not entirely sure what that means but I … Continue reading
Enid Blyton references in other works of fiction part 2
For years I have been collecting little quotes where other authors have mentioned Blyton in their books. The first I noted long before the blog even existed, though I have no idea what purpose I had noted it down for … Continue reading
Posted in General bookishness, Other Authors
Tagged Annie Darling, Freya Sampson, Ian Moore, Jenny Colgan, Kate Thompson, Neil Gaiman
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Malory Towers on TV – A series two overview
This is not going to be as easy to write as my overview for series one, mostly because it has taken me so long to watch this series that I’ve practically forgotten what happened at the beginning of it. But … Continue reading
Posted in Blyton on TV
Tagged Malory Towers, Malory Towers on TV, Malory Towers series two
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Monday #502
My first Christmas post of the year went up last week. There may be more yet, there may not, as I might have exhausted the Blyton Christmas material that I have! While I figure that one out I have come … Continue reading
Enid Blyton Christmas gift guide 2022
It’s that time of year again. Christmas is still reasonably far off, but close enough to want to make a start on getting organised. I’ve only bought a few things so far, but that’s better than nothing! I know I … Continue reading
Posted in Purchases, Seasonal
Tagged Christmas, Christmas Presents, Gift guide, Gifts, Presents
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Malory Towers on TV series two – Episode thirteen
Series three has been online for some time now, but here I am just getting to the end of series two. I don’t think that I’ve made any secret that I haven’t found this series as compelling as the first, … Continue reading
Posted in Blyton on TV
Tagged Malory Towers, Malory Towers on TV, Malory Towers series two
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