A selection of quotes and pictures to represent April’s reading: commonplace book noun a book into which notable extracts from other works are copied for personal use. ~ But it was only in epic tragedies that gloom was unrelieved. In real life, tragedy and comedy were so intermingled that when one was most wretched ridiculous things happened to make one laugh in spite of oneself. A Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer (1961) ~ For that matter, why would anyone bother to read a mystery novel if they had any doubts about the man who was leading them to a solution? It’s a simple rule. Detectives have to be infallible. If not, readers will never trust them again. A Deadly Episode by Anthony Horowitz (2026) ~ Clytemnestra, by John Collier, 1882 ‘Danger, yes, always,’ the goddess says. ‘Danger and doom and death, but also victory. It might be hard to tell the four apart, from where you stand. An ant caught on a thread cannot discern the loom’s grander design – yet it can change the pattern…
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