Dashed Dispatch!

An end-of-week, start-of-the-next madcapper in place of my usual recapper “One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.” – G.K. Chesterton (All Things Considered) I’m back. Sort of… A day late, somewhat dishevelled and without a wind up to make amends, but I do at least have a few bookish bits and bobs to share with you. In the USA, it is National Chocolate Cupcake Day and, from today until 24th October, it is National Friends of Libraries Week. Meanwhile, in these here parts, it is the final day of UK Coffee Week. Tomorrow, we can all get decluttering for National Clean Your Virtual Desktop Day before making the most of International Gin and Tonic Day. Iechyd da, cheers and chin-chin! Today we celebrate the births of English novelist and poet Thomas Love Peacock (1785), American-born British essayist and critic Logan Pearsall Smith (1865), American novelist and short-story writer Fannie Hurst (1889), American novelist and poet H. L. Davis (1894),…