#Clare Fergusson

[padawan-historian]

To better upRoot our miseducation about settler-colonialism, antisemitism, islamophobia, apartheid, and the growing military industrial complex, here are a few urgent and timely reading recommendations from your friendly neighborhood historian (books with ** are my padawan picks)

Books on Muslim Identities & Solidarities:  

Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire: Twenty Years After 9/11 | Deepa Kumar **

The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims | Khaled A. Beydoun 

Tolerance and Risk: How U.S. Liberalism Racializes Muslims | Mitra Rastegar **

The Muslims Are Coming: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror | Arun Kundnani **

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza | Mosab Abu Toha  **

The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine | Ben Ehrenreich 

Erasing Palestine: Free Speech and Palestinian Freedom | Rebecca Gould **

Books on Jewish Identities & Religious Imperialism: 

Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey | Suzanne Berliner Weiss  **

A Land with a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism  

Ten Myths about Israel | Ilan Pappe **

Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto: Writing Our History 

Whatever Happened to Antisemitism?: Redefinition and the Myth of the 'Collective Jew' | Antony Lerman **

Books on the Histories & Afterlives of Palestine: 

The Palestinians | Rosemary Sayigh 

The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine | Bernard Regan **

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 |  Rashid Khalidi **

The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine | Salim Tamari 

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine | Ilan Pappe **

Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel | Andrew Ross **

Gaza Under Hamas: From Islamic Democracy to Islamist Governance | Bjorn Brenner 

The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories | Ilan Pappe

The Battle for Justice in Palestine | Ali Abunimah 

In Search of the River Jordan: A Story of Palestine, Israel and the Struggle for Water | James Fergusson **

Books on Queer Liberation & Apartheid: 

Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique |  Sa'ed Atshan **

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir | Samra Habib **

Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times | Jasbir K. Puar 

Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation | Eli Clare

Books for Young Readers & Growing Families on Palestine, Apartheid, and Racism: 

Young Palestinians Speak: Living Under Occupation **

You Are The Color **

The 1619 Project: Born on the Water **

A Little Piece of Ground 

Wishing Upon the Same Stars **

The Shepherd's Granddaughter **

They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom **

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier **

We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World **

Books for upRooting Political & Academic Imperialism 

Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics | Marc Lamont Hill + Mitchell Plitnick **

Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial | Saree Makdisi

The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World | Antony Loewenstein **

We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Israel | Eric Alterman **

Beyond Occupation: Apartheid, Colonialism and International Law in the Occupied Palestinian Territories | Virginia Tilley

Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom | Keisha Blain

Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis | Matt Mitchelson

Books for Decolonized Scholarship & Community Building: 

The Wretched of the Earth | Franz Fanon **

Necropolitics | Achille Mbembe **

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement | Angela Davis **

Captive Revolution: Palestinian Women's Anti-Colonial Struggle within the Israeli Prison System | Nahla Abdo **

Europe's Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right | Elizabeth Fekete 

The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World | Kehinde Andrews **

The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression | Tariq D. Khan 

Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution | Walter Rodney

You can explore more decolonized book recs + history reads over on Neighborhood Historian or access deeper history lessons (and support these public resources + works) through my Patreon.

#books to read #solidarity with palestine against apartheid #black solidarity with palestine #free palestine #free us all #padawan historian #decolonize your bookshelf #the fire is here #our history is your history #book recommendations #resources for you #antiracist resources

[tawneybel]

Song of the day: “Season of the Witch” by Donovan. Dark Winds used it. :D 

I’m going to try to post personal updates more on Sundays lol. On Hailey Fe now. I miss Junel Fe, except Hailey comes with iron instead of sugar pills. Hailey is keeping my skin clearer than Lo Loestrin Fe did. 

Speaking of PCOS, Delicate Condition is the first book I’ve read where a character has that. :D She doesn’t show up until the ending, though. There are some characters I headcanon as having polycystic ovaries. They’re just that: headcanons.

After hearing how Angelica Ross was treated on-set, I’m even more pissed by American Horror Story: Delicate’s casting. Despite the novel’s anti-misogyny, -racism, and -ageism messages… Well, those first two could have used some more work. Editing wasn’t great. Anna came off as an out of touch rich woman more than once. (Like this season’s cast.) 

I felt horrible for her publicist, who was fired due to misunderstandings. It’s understandable why Anna thought she was being stalked. It’s the whole point of the book. But poor Emily never gets an explanation, much less an apology. Siobhan also claims resurrecting the dead is unnatural. Being part of an immortal coven capable of body hopping/genetic memory à la Dune isn’t??

Long story short, there are already reviews that remind me of The VVitch. Protagonist joins a coven that hurt her. Some fans claim female empowerment. Siobhan’s coven isn’t malevolent. But Anna was left ignorant that magic was being performed on her, which was the cause of her pain and hallucinations. 

Danielle Vega did a great job at exploring ageism with number1crush’s attitude toward Anna. That has to be said. Fan (or anti-fan) entitlement is a pet peeve. 

I haven’t read Rosemary’s Baby in a while and haven’t seen the movie, but the doctor’s name was also Hill. Dr. Carla Hill makes me think of Carl Hill from Re-Animator. 

Right now I’m reading the Joe Leaphorn series after watching Dark Winds. Also, the Rev. Clare Fergusson Mysteries and almost done with Dr. Ruth Galloway. Mysteries are more my cup of tea book-wise.  

#Tawney talks #PCOS #polycystic ovary syndrome #Hailey Fe #Junel Fe #Lo Loestrin Fe #Delicate Condition #Angelica Ross #American Horror Story #AHS #American Horror Story: Delicate #Delicate Condition spoilers #Delicate #Dune #The VVitch #The Witch #The Witch 2015 #Danielle Vega #Rosemary’s Baby #Rosemary’s Baby 1968 #The Witch: A New-England Folktale #Joe Leaphorn #Dark Winds #Clare Fergusson #Ruth Galloway #Donovan

[loneberry]

The praise singers: poets George Mackay Brown and Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins and George Mackay Brown were both Catholic converts, shy and tormented by depression, whose poems are filled with delight in Creation. A recently discovered cache of Brown’s notebooks shows how deeply he empathised with Hopkins’ inner struggles

[Pasting the entirety of this beautiful article here because I’ve been in a Hopkins hole and enjoy contemplating how poets befriend dead poets, how the poet feels the presence of the dead poet at the church of St Aloysius during evening Mass. If it’s tl;dr at least let me leave you with George’s extraordinary final vision before dying: Just before he lost consciousness, he said to the doctor and nurses attending him, “I see hundreds and hundreds of ships sailing out of the harbour.”]

By Maggie Fergusson

A poet’s hope, W.H. Auden believed, is “to be like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere”. No twentieth-century poet was more local than George Mackay Brown. He was born in the Orcadian seaport Stromness in 1921, and there, pretty much, he stayed – not even venturing the 15 miles to Orkney’s capital, Kirkwall, until he was in his mid-twenties.

In an age of Concorde and inter-city travel, he was as rooted in his landscape as John Clare or William Barnes. But, by drawing his boundaries so closely around him, he allowed his imagination to range freely through time and space. As Seamus Heaney put it, “George Mackay Brown transformed everything by drawing it through the eye of the needle of Orkney.”

So there was consternation among his friends when, in June 1989, Brown announced that he planned to make his first (and only) trip to England. The centenary of the death of Gerard Manley Hopkins was approaching, and the Bodleian Library in Oxford was putting on an exhibition of his manuscripts. The similarities between Hopkins and Brown were striking: both were converts to Catholicism, shy, spiritual, passionate, tormented, but also filled with euphoric gladness by the wonders of Creation.

“No English poet ever fell upon the language with such skill, sweetness and boisterous daring,” Brown wrote of Hopkins. Seeing the work of the Jesuit poet “in the ink” might help him to understand how Hopkins “forged and hammered and welded those resounding marvels”.

Brown travelled south with a friend, but the journey, by sleeper, was fraught. He was terrified by the semi-automated, fast-folding lavatory doors. At bedtime, he took a sleeping pill but, as he could find no water, it lodged in his throat. He didn’t realise that his compartment had a blind, so all through the night station lights flashed across his face.

By the time his editor, Hugo Brunner, met him at King’s Cross, he was shaken and weary. After a brisk tour of London, during which Brown was photographed in front of Buckingham Palace, clinging to a carrier bag from Argo’s baker in Stromness, in which he’d packed his pyjamas and toothbrush, Brunner drove him to his home in north Oxford. A friend who met him there soon after his arrival said he looked so frail, sitting in the garden, it was as if some dry leaves had blown themselves into the vague semblance of a man.

But, once he’d had time to rest, things looked up. Hopkins’s beloved Oxford –

Towery city and branchy between towers:

Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd,

lark-charmèd, rook-racked,

river-rounded

– began to work its magic.

Brown’s visit happened to coincide with the election for a new Professor of Poetry, and he walked through the city in the June sun to watch the voting.

The retiring professor, Peter Levi, spotted him standing in shadows. “He was a formidably craggy, elderly hairpin of a man,” Levi wrote. “Of everything I saw that day, his face is the only unforgettable experience.”

Brown talked to the pupils at St Edward’s School. He allowed himself to be interviewed by Sue MacGregor. He was driven out to Littlemore, and was deeply affected to visit the tiny chapel where Newman was received in 1845. But what moved him most was the welcome he received from Hopkins himself. Almost everywhere he turned in Oxford, Brown later wrote in The Orcadian, he sensed Hopkins’ spirit – “sweet” and “eager”. On the centenary itself, he visited the church of St Aloysius, where Hopkins had been curate, and sensed him “especially there in that little church … at evening Mass”. He travelled home to Orkney relieved, but elated.

It was three years after this that I first met Brown, sent to Orkney by The Times to interview him on the publication of his novel Vinland. I was in Stromness for four days, and we forged an unlikely friendship. “I hope you will come back often, Maggie,” he wrote after I left. “I feel you belong here in Orkney.” So I did go back, often, and the summer before he died Brown – who I now called George – gave me his blessing to write his biography, after he was gone.

It was a daunting task: how to make a book about a man whose life had been so interior and apparently uneventful? But as soon as I set to work, material flooded in – most wonderfully George’s correspondence with Stella Cartwright, “Muse of Rose Street”, the beautiful, tragic woman, possessed of “a kind of radiance, a rich essence on which poets and artists feed to sustain themselves”, whom he nearly married.

George had told me that his work on Hopkins – preliminary notes for a thesis he never completed – was in his attic, and I very much looked forward to reading it. But it couldn’t be found, and it wasn’t until recently that it turned up in a sale, and was bought by the National Library of Scotland. So last July, Edinburgh steeped in a summer haar, I slipped into the manuscripts room to look through rough jottings made by George in a handful of buff-covered exercise books in the 1960s. Here are just a few of the nuggets I found.

Winifred Maynard, the tutor who oversaw George’s work, and whom I tracked down in researching my book, found him a frustrating student. She had hoped he might produce some original work on Hopkins’ theories of prosody: sprung rhythm, outriders, instress, inscape. But what he loved to do instead was just to read Hopkins’ poems “in my own way, often aloud”, and to respond to them simply. And what his response lacked in sophistication, it made up for in feeling.

Hopkins, he writes, “was not a poet of fairgrounds and inn-yards, like Chaucer or Burns; he was a lonelier poet even than Wordsworth on his lonely hills”. So George is fascinated by the handful of real people “who live and move in Hopkins’ art”. Some of these are not much more than “metaphysical diving boards”, but a few come alive – none more so than Felix Randal – “caught in the tension between his life of elemental labour and the peace of a good death”.

Felix Randal the farrier, O is he dead

then? my duty all ended,

Who have watched his mould of man,

big-boned and hardy-handsome

Pining, pining …

There is “intimacy” in this poem, George writes, not just because Hopkins had come to love Randal, but because “the image that comes closest to Hopkins himself is that of a blacksmith … fettling ‘for the great gray dray-horse his bright and battering sandal’”. Through poems like these, George writes, Hopkins was making “a heroic lonely attempt to put song back into a language grown thin and washed out”.

Seamus Heaney called George Mackay Brown “the praise singer”, and he might have shared this epithet with Hopkins, many of whose poems express an exuberant love of Creation that no English poet has equalled –

Nothing is so beautiful as Spring –

When weeds, in wheels, shoot long

and lovely and lush …

But then there is the Hopkins of the dark sonnets. “The melancholy of Victorian poetry,” George writes, “is all pale grey shadows compared to the black pit Hopkins went to at a certain late period of his life.” What “haunted him cruelly”, George feels, “was the loss of Eden in every individual, which needs must be (none knew it more than Hopkins himself, the priest: the Confession box is a kind of sewer where all the world’s filth runs away), and yet the great rift between innocence and sin wrung protest after protest from him against the seeming heartlessness of God –

No worst, there is none. Pitched past

pitch of grief,

More pangs will, schooled at forepangs,

wilder wring.

Comforter, where, where is your

comforting?

Mary, mother of us, where is your

relief?

“Such abandonment is all the more terrible for a man who is a priest,” George writes, “who holds in his hands every morning at Mass the Bread of Heaven.”

Is this a dark night of the soul? Not quite. In the dark night, George writes, people doubt the existence of God. Hopkins never does. “The dark night is next to incommunicable, but these sonnets express only too vividly the misery of all men who try to live simultaneously in two worlds. That is why they are so impressive, whereas (for example) St Teresa of Avila’s attempts to convey the ‘dark night’ to ordinary people leaves them cold and puzzled.”

George, like Hopkins, lived with blackness, though he never allowed it into his poetry. From adolescence, he was plagued by depression – “so severe it can be that one longs for oblivion”. And depression was bound inextricably with guilt. “The sun is flashing off the snow on to the back of my head as I sit writing in the kitchen,” he wrote to a friend one winter’s morning, “and all that brightness makes me feel what a filthy creature I am.”

No wonder, then, that George felt profound empathy for Hopkins’ moral scruples. Both poets were conflicted, for example, about fame. “There is a point with me,” Hopkins wrote to Robert Bridges, “when I must absolutely have encouragement as much as crops rain.”

And yet fame was, he believed, “one of the most dangerous things to man”. The only “just judge, the only just literary critic, is Christ, who prizes, is proud of, and admires, more than any man … the gifts of his own making”.

Hopkins was, George writes, “a divided man”, whose poetry bears witness to “the naked encounter of the sensualist and the ascetic”. He responds to Creation with “outbursts of pure pagan joy”, and then tacks 
on to them “God-invocations”. It doesn’t always work: “One can see the marks of the stitching.”

And yet Hopkins’ strivings were the opposite of futile. “No poet”, George writes, “ever indulged himself more, sought more passionately by all means – sensuous, intellectual, spiritual – for the fullest and truest flowering of his being.”

And for both these extraordinary poets, bleakness and bewilderment yielded, in the end, to bliss. The members of Hopkins’ Dublin community who sat at his deathbed heard him murmur “I am so happy, I am so happy”. George died in the Balfour Hospital in Kirkwall in April 1996. Just before he lost consciousness, he said to the doctor and nurses attending him, “I see hundreds and hundreds of ships sailing out of the harbour.”

#poetry #literature #gerard manley hopkins #george mackay brown #depression #Maggie Fergusson

[redclaysoliloquy]

Hit my 30 book goal for the year

...in April. 

I changed it to 50, but I’m not sure I’ll achieve it. I was just lucky to find a bunch of series i liked in a row so I always had something to read next. 

I just finished a book in 48 hours or so and my eyes are killing me. I can’t wait for my glasses to come in. Are sprained eyeballs a thing?! 

For anyone else who likes crime/thriller/police procedurals/detective novels this is what I’ve been reading.

Maeve Kerrigan series by Jane Casey. (1 book left and 1 coming out this year) 

The Crimson Lake series by Candice Fox (2 books left) 

The Child Finder by Rene Denfield  (Naomi Cottle series book 1) 1 book coming out this year.

Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne series by Julia Spencer Fleming (0 books left but 1 coming out next year after a 6 year gap) I read all 8 of these books in a 2 week period and love them passionately. 

Two Girls Down by Louisa Luna (it's supposedly going to be a series and I REALLY hope so cause damn this book was GOOD)

I love recs so feel free to send them my way.

I've decided to try the Cormoran Strike series by RK Rowling (under a male pseudonym.) It has a lot of negative reviews on GoodReads and I wonder if people are just bummed that it's not Harry Potter? I'm going to give it a fair try. I’m a sucker for a mystery and a slow-burn romance and supposedly that series has both.  On a side note, Tana French needs to write another Murder Squad book. I miss that squad room and that world, as crazy as it sounds. 

#bookblr #books #reading #bookworm #personal post #gimme yours recs #maeve kerrigan #clare fergusson #goodreads

[readlove]

Fiction Shelves: Hid From Our Eyes by Julia Spencer-Fleming

5 of 5 Hearts for #HidFromOurEyes by #JuliaSpencerFleming : "Three Murders, Three Police Chiefs, Three Time-lines, All Equally Compelling!" @JSpencerFleming @BookishFirst @MinotaurBooks @StMartinsPress Click link for full review:

Three Murders, Three Police Chiefs, Three Time-lines, All Equally Compelling!

Hid From Our Eyes by Julia Spencer-Fleming

Series: A Clare Fergusson / Russ Van Alstyne Mystery (Book 9) Publication Date: April 7, 2020 Publisher: Minotaur Books Length: 352pp ISBN-13: 978-0312606855

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#Adult Mystery #Clare Fergusson #Hid From Our Eyes #Julia Spencer-Fleming #Murder Mystery #Russ van Alstyne

[mercerislandbooks]

Time for a Mystery?

When the Island Books staff got wind that Louise Penny’s newest Chief Inspector Gamache book would be published early September, we knew our customers would be interested. Sure enough, after brisk pre-order sales, a shelf full of All the Devils Are Here hardbacks waited to be picked up by eager readers on September 1st. More than one person has remarked on the fact that we keep the full Chief Inspector Gamache series on hand in the mystery section, but it has less to do with the enthusiasm of the staff for the series, though we are fans, and more with the reality that person after person on Mercer Island keeps discovering the series and buying them by the handful.

Chief Inspector Gamache is a wonderful mystery series in the best of times, and now, as we keep hearing from over the counter that reading has become an escape, they would be a satisfying reading project. For anyone who has yet to discover Louise Penny, these are contemporary mysteries, set in the fictional town of Three Pines, on the border of Canada and the US in Quebec. The inhabitants of Three Pines are quirky, to say the least. With All the Devils Are Here, the series stretches to sixteen books and I find with each successive book, the psychology of the characters and the mysteries deepen. I’ve rarely, if ever, been able to guess who did it in a Louise Penny mystery, and for the last several I’ve not even tried. Now I just let her take me along for the ride and cross my fingers that everyone comes out okay at the end.

With a new Louise Penny out, it got me thinking about other mystery series I’ve enjoyed that have a new addition!

One is a historical mystery series, The Right Sort of Man (Sparks and Bainbridge Mystery #1) by Allison Montclair. This is perfect for those who like Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs or Charles Todd’s Ian Rutledge series. Set in post-WWII Britain, two enterprising women, Iris Sparks and Gwendolyn Bainbridge, partner up to establish a marriage bureau, matching their clients seeking lasting relationships. But within pages someone is dead and Iris and Gwen are drawn into the hunt for the murderer. The dialogue between the two is light, snappy, and full of humor. Montclair is deft at dealing with mental health issues (Gwen spent some of her war in a mental institution) and the tricky morality questions that arise from having worked in intelligence (Iris). Just as much as finding the murderer, this is about Gwen and Iris forging a friendship and trust that goes beyond the workplace. A Royal Affair (Sparks and Bainbridge Mystery #2) came out the end of July and did not disappoint me as a next installment.

The second is the long awaited Hid From Our Eyes, Book #9 of the Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne series from Julia Spencer-Fleming. This is a series I was introduced to by customers once I started working at Island Books and I loved them. This is a good pick for Louise Penny fans. I don’t tend to read contemporary mysteries but I found the premise of the series intriguing. And once I read the first, I was invested in the characters and the town and I had to see what happened next. In book #1, In The Bleak Midwinter, we meet Clare Fergusson, the newly named first female Episcopal priest of St. Alban’s in the town of Millers Kill, upstate New York. She really has enough on her plate with trying to win over her conservative congregation but when an infant is left at the doorstep, Clare joins forces with the Police Chief, Russ Van Alstyne, to discover what has become of the mother.

There’s been a six year publishing gap between Book #8, Through the Evil Days, and the April 7th release of Book #9, Hid from Our Eyes. Julia Spencer-Fleming shared that several difficult life events put her writing life on hold for a while, but now she is back with this newest book, and at work on Book #10, which is welcome news given the ending of Book #9!

In addition to enjoying the latest from these three wonderful authors, I’ve also added A Murder in Time, Book #1 of the Kendra Donovan Mysteries by Julie McElwain, and The Lost Man by Jane Harper to my TBR. Lillian, our children’s specialist recommends the Kendra Donovan series, calling it CSI with time travel and Jane Austen. And so many mystery readers love Jane Harper that I want to try her for myself!

In addition, the Knitting Book Club will be reading Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers for our November 5th meeting, my favorite of her mysteries.

I hope this gives you all some new ideas for fall reading!

-- Lori

#island books #lori robinson #mysteries #louise penny #chief inspector gamache #all the devils are here #three pines #allison montclair #the right sort of man #a royal affair #sparks and bainbridge #julia spencer-fleming #hid from our eyes #in the bleak midwinter #clare fergusson and russ van alstyn #julie mcelwain #a murder in time #jane harper #the lost man #knitting book club #gaudy night #dorothy l. sayers

[riley1cannon]

Bleah... So my first book of 2021 has also turned out to be my first DNF of the year:

Now, apparently this is actually Book #5 in this series, but due to a change in publishers this entry is being touted as the first in the series. I will allow that could make a difference--but am inclinded to doubt it. Did the protagonist/narrator experience some horrific trauma in those earlier books that robbed her of all signs of a personality? Did something siphon away any trace of a sense of humor? Do those earlier books blend entertaining and informative veterinarian exploits with active mystery solving where Dr. Kate is deeply invested in the outcome?

Because all she does in this one, for the 246 pps. I stuck it out (out of 390 pps., which is really, really long for a cozy mystery), is: get up, go down to the clinic, talk, exam someone’s pet, contemplate her love life, spare thirty seconds for the murders, and then repeat.

But then who can blame her? The author does nothing to show us why anyone should care about the victims or why they died. 

So, yeah, not what I was hoping for. 

But I still have two books from Christmas that at least look like the authors have a better grasp of how cozy mysteries work. My fingers are crossed anyway.

In the meantime, since I don’t want to blow through those all at once, I’m cleansing my reading palate, as it were, by continuing my reread of the Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne mysteries, with their second book:

As expected, Russ and Clare and the folk of Miller’s Kill are far better company, even though the murders are especially brutal this time out.

#books 2021

[antheas-blackberry]

Day 34

I wrote a bit today. First time I’ve been able to work on my WIP in ages.  I’ve been thinking about it, but creativity has been hard to come by. Once this chapter (8) is done and posted, I will have to get serious about finishing as chapter 8 is the last one I had mostly written.

I tidied my flat, read some fanfic, and went for a mediocre 5 mile run. I had pizza for dinner. 

I’m now reading the most recent Russ Van Alstyne/Clare Fergusson after re-reading the previous 8 again. 

#social distancing #diary #personal

[artzyguylou]

📚 CURRENTLY READING: 𝗜𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗸 𝗠𝗶𝗱𝘄𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 (The Rev. Clare Fergusson & Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries #1) by Julia Spencer-Fleming . 💁🏼‍♀️ Hello book friends! I received an ARC in this series from Minotaur Books and thought to get myself familiar with the characters before I start reading it. Keep an eye for my review in a few days. . 𝘼 𝙧𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙥𝙖𝙜𝙚-𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝. – Publishers Weekly . ✏️ Synopsis: Clare Fergusson, St. Alban's new priest, fits like a square peg in the conservative Episcopal parish at Millers Kill, New York. She is not just a "lady," she's a tough ex-Army chopper pilot, and nobody's fool. Then a newborn infant left at the church door brings her together with the town's police chief, Russ Van Alstyne, who's also ex-Army and a cynical good shepherd for the stray sheep of his hometown. Their search for the baby's mother quickly leads them into the secrets that shadow Millers Kill like the ever-present Adirondacks. What they discover is a world of trouble, an attraction to each other—and murder... . 🔮 Let’s play a predictive text game today: Type “What I discovered is a world of…” and complete the sentence using the predictive text on your phone. . . #poodles #poodlestagram #poodlesofinstagram #furbabies #dogsofinstagram #bookstagram #dogsandbooks #bookishlife #bookishlove #bookstagrammer #book #books #booklover #bookish #bookaholic #reading #readersofinstagram #instaread #ilovebooks #bookishcanadians #canadianbookstagram #bookreviewer #bookcommunity #bibliophile #bookphotography #inthebleakmidwinter #juliaspencerfleming #currentlyreading #mystery https://www.instagram.com/p/B7gInVYAcUD/?igshid=1g9evyfvj9ugb

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[ukfuturefundinvestments]

Shareholders of JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITED

A directory of the Shareholders of JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITED

Background

JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITED raised funding from the UK Future Fund that has subsequently converted into equity.

Table of Shareholders of JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITED

CompanyShareholderShares% of SharesValue JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDHENRY HADLOW255,89122.34% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDETIENNE POLLARD255,89122.34% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDFORWARD PARTNERS II LIMITED PARTNERSHIP108,0999.44% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDFORWARD PARTNERS II LIMITED PARTNERSHIP88,4447.72% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDMAT WALL36,9833.23% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDLCIF LLP29,4812.57% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDMARK FERGUSON22,6561.98% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDPAUL POWLESLAND20,8331.82% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDPAUL WILLMOTT20,0491.75% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDMARTYN INGLIS19,2541.68% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDCHARLIE JACOBS16,3841.43% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDMCCELLERATOR LLP16,2331.42% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDBRIAN DINEEN12,3921.08% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDNICK KUKRIKA12,3921.08% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDALEX RUSSELL11,9251.04% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDJUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITED10,2080.89% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDJOHANNES GREFE8,8250.77% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDJAMES CRONIN8,1830.71% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDTHOMAS STUDD8,1500.71% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDALEX BERRY7,3490.64% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDCHRIS MCCARTHY6,8000.59% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDEMMA DIXON6,7890.59% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDLIM HO-SHIK6,5470.57% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDABENET TSEGAI6,5470.57% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDMATT SHERETT6,5330.57% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDELIZABETH VYVYAN & CHARLES VYVYAN6,5130.57% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDWELLS STEPHEN6,5000.57% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDGEMMA LEIGH6,4350.56% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDMIKE BRACKEN6,4120.56% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDTOM LOOSEMORE6,4120.56% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDALEX TOMLINS6,0000.52% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDRACHEL BOWMAN6,0000.52% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDTOM VALENTINE & JO VALENTINE5,7120.50% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDRICARDO MAPP DOS ANJOS5,6250.49% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDTOM KIBASI5,6100.49% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDFRANCES KEMBALL4,9100.43% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDNICK ON4,9100.43% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDBLAINE COOK4,0760.36% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDMARC STONEHAM4,0760.36% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDNICK GALL4,0580.35% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDRYAN SIKORSKY4,0070.35% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDPAUL GRAINGER3,2740.29% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDCHARLES GILLMAN3,2740.29% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDBEN TERRETT3,2060.28% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDPETER BRANSDEN2,9810.26% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDSAMANTHA WILKINSON2,0000.17% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDSAM BOYD2,0000.17% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDBEN POLLARD1,9240.17% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDTHEODORE HADLOW1,6370.14% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDJANET HUGHES1,6370.14% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDERIC FERGUSSON1,6370.14% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDHUGO HADLOW1,6370.14% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDTONY ROWLEY1,6030.14% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDREBECCA THOMAS1,5000.13% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDCONOR MCMAHON1,5000.13% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDALEX WALTERS1,1800.10% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDPETER JACOBS1,0970.10% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDOLIVER HARRY1,0420.09% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDSOPHIE MCGEER1,0000.09% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDRACHEL STEWART1,0000.09% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDAMY WARREN1,0000.09% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDSHUMEA KHATUN1,0000.09% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDSOPHIE UPTON1,0000.09% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDVICKI BROWN1,0000.09% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDAISLING OWEN1,0000.09% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDSHABBANA JAMIL1,0000.09% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDSUSAN KEIGHLEY1,0000.09% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDJENNIFER SEAR1,0000.09% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDCLAIRE GAMBLE1,0000.09% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDSTEF MAGDALINSKI9830.09% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDGILES TURNBULL8020.07% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDRUSSELL DAVIES8020.07% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDZARA SHAHZAD7500.07% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDBEN PLOCKI & KATHARINE HODGE6420.06% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDMOHAMED IMRAN5000.04% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDFLORA JOLL5000.04% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDEITAN WEINSTEIN5000.04% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDANISHA KAIYUM5000.04% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDRUSSELL DAVIES5000.04% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDMASUMA BEGUM5000.04% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDWILLIAM THOMAS JOHN WRIDE4320.04% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDEMMA FOX4000.03% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDCLARE LEACH4000.03% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDROSIE JONES3000.03% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDCHARLOTTE LILLEYMAN3000.03% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDOLIVIA CONSTANTINOU3000.03% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDPAULINE PEARSON2400.02% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDJANE WELBY2400.02% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDCRISTINA POSTARU2400.02% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDPATRICIJA FILA2400.02% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDSUMMER WHITE2000.02% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDSANTANNA REAY1750.02% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDNAKITA GREWAL1670.01% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDGILES TURNBULL1310.01% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDNICOLA CLEARY1200.01% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDEMMA RUYANT1200.01% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDTRACY SNOWDEN1200.01% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDJULIE MCCORMISH1000.01% JUNO LEGAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDCATHY TORPEY720.01%

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#TuesdayBookBlog No Woman is an Island: Inspiring and Empowering International Women (Pandora's Boxed Set) by Liza Perrat (@LizaPerrat), Linda Gillard, Lorna Fergusson, Clare Flynn, Helena Halme An unmissable set of stories to suit all tastes. Highly recommended #RBRT

#TuesdayBookBlog No Woman is an Island: Inspiring and Empowering International Women (Pandora’s Boxed Set) by Liza Perrat (@LizaPerrat), Linda Gillard, Lorna Fergusson, Clare Flynn, Helena Halme An unmissable set of stories to suit all tastes. Highly recommended #RBRT

Hi all: I bring you the review of a boxed set today, 5 full-length novels, so, as you can imagine, it’s going to be long, so you’ve been warned. It’s a fantastic collection though, so you might want to read on. No Woman Is an Island boxed set No Woman is an Island: Inspiring and Empowering International Women (Pandora’s Boxed Set) by Liza Perrat (@LizaPerrat), Linda Gillard, Lorna…

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Julia Spencer-Flemings Letters to a Soldier - Julia Spencer-Fleming | Women Sleuths |421129138

Julia Spencer-Flemings Letters to a Soldier Julia Spencer-Fleming Genre: Women Sleuths Price: Get Publish Date: March 15, 2011 In LETTERS TO A SOLDIER, Julia Spencer-Fleming provides new content--letters exchanged between the main characters in I Shall Not Want and O ne Was a Soldier . Along with the letters, there is also a special note from Julia Spencer-Fleming and a sneak peak of ONE WAS A SOLDIER. Julia Spencer-Fleming burst onto the mystery scene with her debut, In the Bleak Midwinter, garnering almost every award imaginable. Since then, her Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne series has taken suspense and heart-tugging to the next level, making for truly satisfying reading. The newest installment, ONE WAS A SOLDIER, is available April 2011.

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Hid from Our Eyes

Hid from Our Eyes by Julia Spencer-Fleming

New York Times bestseller Julia Spencer-Fleming returns to her beloved Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne mystery series with new crimes that span decades. 1952. Millers Kill Police Chief Harry McNeil is called to a crime scene where a woman in a party dress has been murdered with no obvious cause of death. 1972. Millers Kill Police Chief Jack Liddle is called to a murder scene of a woman that's very similar to one he worked as a trooper in the 50s. The only difference is this time, they have a suspect. Young Vietnam War veteran Russ van Alstyne found the body while riding his motorcycle and is quickly pegged as the prime focus of the investigation. Present-day. Millers Kill Police Chief Russ van Alstyne gets a 911 call that a young woman has been found dead in a party dress, the same MO as the crime he was accused of in the 70s. The pressure is on for Russ to solve the murder before he's removed from the case. Russ will enlist the help of his police squad and Reverand Clare Fergusson, who is already juggling the tasks of being a new mother to her and Russ's baby and running St. Alban's Church, to finally solve these crimes. Readers have waited years for this newest book and Julia Spencer-Fleming delivers with the exquisite skill and craftsmanship that have made her such a success.

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Tea Time Tuesday

Welcome to Tea Time my Fellow Book Dragons! I do hope your weather was as lovely as it was here. There were a pair of Mockingbirds singing outside The Cave today. Lovely. Our Gem this evening is quite mysterious. At first glance it simply looks like a sequin from a young woman’s party dress, but hold it in your claws and close your eyes. You will see more. You see a figure coming towards you, offering you a ride in his car, you cannot see his face, for it is evening and he stays half in shadow. You have no way home and all the buses have gone. He has a nice car and you are sure you saw a friend laughing with him earlier. He does look familiar, doesn’t he? Open your eyes, your heart is beating a little faster and I see there is fear behind your eyes. It affected me the same way. This is Gem Maker Julia Spencer-Fleming’s “Hid From Our Eyes”.

What would you think if every 20 years or so, a young woman’s body was found dead on a certain road in your county. Exact same spot, exact same MO, exact same everything? And a cause of death could never be determined? And what if the second time this happened, you were the main suspect? And the third time it happened you were the County Sheriff?

This is the tale of Russ Van Alstyne and his lovely wife (and recovering addict/alcoholic) Episcopal Priest Clare Fergusson. This one is for feasting in small meals because you do not want to miss a thing. It made me pause to consider the evidence, the suspects, the people, the places. This one made my scales crawl at times. I loved it! Russ and Clare are extremely likeable, yet flawed. This is no happily ever after and all is perfect, all the time.

This couple works together as a unit, most of the time. Russ is also a man one wants to work for. He is determined to save his department from small town penny pinchers who see utilizing the State Police and doing away with the Town Police as a great alternative to save cash. And by the way, if your town is thinking of doing that, don’t. I have been there, it is never a good idea. But I digress, Russ and his deputies work hard. Are they all Sherlock Holmes or DCI Barnaby? Are they going to come in like Danny R. Smith’s Detective’s Jones and Tyler? No. But they know their jobs, their town and their people. They will get this job done.

If you love a good mystery with decent people in realistic settings, “Hid From Our Eyes” is definitely for you. It was just released today and is everywhere in all media forms at very reasonable prices! Until tomorrow, I remain, your humble Book Dragon,

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I received my copy of this book from #MinotaurBooks through a giveaway at #BookishFirst. My opinion is my own.

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22 of 30 books read this year

I got a library card here in Colorado Springs also, so it’s been easier to go through my to-read list. 

I’m still on a thriller/police procedural/mystery kick, and really into series. 

I started a Sharon Bolton series, but was revolted by some happenings in the second book and haven’t been able to pick up the third one.I’d only recommend those books to someone with a strong stomach and who don't mind when the author does shitty things to the protagonist for no apparent plot-driven reason.

I’m currently into Jane Casey’s Maeve Kerrigan series and impatiently awaiting my request for the third book to come through.

Clearly, I have a thing for female detectives.

 I completely tore through all of Julia Spencer-Fleming’s Clare Fergusson series. It will always have a special place in my heart, because those books were my happy place during the stress of moving. And yes, my happy place involves solving murders. 

Meanwhile, I think I might need to get glasses, my eyes are killing me lol

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Author Julia Spencer-Fleming And Narrator Suzanne Toren on "Hid From Our Eyes"

Author Julia Spencer-Fleming And Narrator Suzanne Toren on “Hid From Our Eyes”

In “Hid From Our Eyes,” New York Times bestselling author Julia Spencer-Fleming returns to her beloved Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne mystery series with new crimes that span decades.

Read by Suzanne Toren, the audio edition of this book takes this captivating story to the next level brings the suspense to life.

What follows is a conversation with Julia Spencer-Fleming and the narrator Suzanne…

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