Winding Up the Week #468

An end of week fortnight recap “Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.” – Iris Murdoch Sadly, I didn’t make it to Oban (as announced in WUTW #467) because my wife’s mother was taken ill. Since I hadn’t expected to be home, there was no wind up scheduled for last weekend, so I turned my attention to various other book and blog‑related tasks instead. Okay people, grab your broomsticks and wands – it’s International Harry Potter Day, a perfect excuse to revisit the books. Tomorrow, meanwhile, belongs to book bloggers: it’s Write a Review Day (you know what to do). And, just to keep the festivities going, it also happens to be Wordsmith Day, World Press Freedom Day and World Laughter Day. Quite the combination! Among today’s bookish birthdays are German novelist, poet and polymath Novalis (1772), English writer and humourist Jerome K Jerome (1859), Lithuanian Symbolist poet and…