A Common Reader is . . .

. . . written by Tom Cunliffe, of East Sussex, England (to read more about me see my About page).

It consists of book reviews and more general articles about reading and currently receives over 10,000 unique visitors each month. So far 290 book reviews have been published.


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Kindle ebook: The Colour of Her Eyes – Conan Kennedy

Regular readers will know that I’m taking a summer break from book blogging because of a large number of other commitments in July, August and September. I apologise to those who’ve left comments on my reviews in recent weeks and haven’t had a reply from me – I’ll catch up with them all soon.

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Instapaper

I’d like to write briefly about an application which make my life so much easier.

Instapaper, a fantastic free service which lets you save any website for reading later.  You go to the website and install a little “Read Later” bookmarklet on your toolbar and then whenever you see an article you want to read [...]

A mixed bag of topics

Snowdrops

Its been a busy weekend, what with family staying and others visiting.  Its been the finest Easter on record as fas as weather is concerned and we’ve all been at the beach, where friends kindly lent us their beach-hut.

The house was awash with Easter Eggs, and now we have two grandchildren (see [...]

A busy time

Real life has interfered with my book reviewing in the last ten days or so. Our daughter has just had her second baby (Florence) and needless to say, with us living so close to her, we’ve been going across to see her and also taking two year-old Iris home with us for the occasional stay-overs [...]

A month with a Kindle

Amazon Kindle in Duragadget case

Everyone seems to be writing about their Kindle but I’m going to jot down a few thoughts anyway.

The Kindle was a Christmas gift from my wife but I’d known it was coming so I had preloaded it with a couple of books and when I turned it on [...]