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rving to what is essentially a meal of beautifully rich writing and bittersweet storytelling with a garnish of salty tears it s certainly not as light and casual as some of those review phrases and jacket design would suggest and whether later alternative editions it came out in paperback this week come closer to presenting the real marrow of the book i can t say i haven t seen those copies for me though this disconnect turned out to be a positive experience i was pleasantly surprised that i found myself reading something far more stylish literary and deep than i was expecting and maybe it s the exceeding of my expectations that s been a part of the reason the book has endured in my mind after reading but i m getting ahead of myself talking about having finished the book here s a glimpse at the opening lines so you get a feel for the prose yourself it s hannah s debut novel and like so many first novels this feels like a beloved collection of ideas thoughts phrases distilled into a rich and satisfying end result distilled not condensed this isn t a novel over crammed with plot twists or research or high concepts it s a novel of clarity focus and immediacy which while you might not want it to puts you right there on that bed in that room with it s narrator and that s where you stay from start to finish inside his life his room his head meanwhile you learn about his wider life his past his story beyond the room through the conceit of him listing body parts a z attaching a story to each one for example and that s probably the first time i ve seen the word chesticles written down a recommendation in itself surely and with that that s all i m going to say to whet your whistle to stir your curiosity to tempt you to add the a z of you and me to your to read list because remember i don t want to tell you about this book what i will tell you is that it made me cry and i feel i can tell you this because i say that so often here about so many things that perhaps you ll write it off as nothing noteworthy i m quite literally the girl who cried wolf and then cried because no one believed her that there was a wolf in the first place and then again worrying if the wolf was ok out there on its own and what would happen if they did believe her and then go and kill the wolf so yes i m easily moved but the emotional reactions it stirred in me were not cheap easy ones the tears were drawn from my eyes not jerked some were to be expected others came in waves the scenes with the girl with the yarn bombing for example and they kept coming gently until the final page so make of this review what you will because that s it i m not going to tell you anything more about it in fact i ve probably already told you too much and i didn t want to tell you about it in the first place but if you do want to know more then find a copy of the book and push your nose firmly into it or there s currently an official blog tour happening which you can follow by heading to the atozofyouandme hashtag on twitter within those tweets you ll be able to find plenty of other reviews which give more of the game away i m not part of the blog tour i m just gate crashing it just happened to coincide with my just having finished the book and for further details you can find the author james hannah on twitter here or on his website your turn have you read the a z of you and me how would you tell someone about it without telling them too much or are there other books that you d love other people to read but you don t want to spoil the plot before they begin do share your thoughts and experiences julie more book talk posted by julie kirk at 07 00 0 comments labels portable magic books reading james hannah the a z of you me atozofyouandme email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday 27 august 2015 summertime photography scavenger hunt 2015 the london edition hi hi did you catch my post earlier this week the one where i blurred the lines between rational adult on holiday and complete sherlock super fan a post which for balance also involved gnomes and black bean burgers well if you didn t read it you ll want to go catch up because that s quality journalism you re missing out on right there but not so quick because i ve got more scavenger hunt photos to share as i m almost finished my version of the 21 items we needed to find so have i mentioned i ve been to london once or twice well ever since i knew i was headed there i d been holding off photographing this next particular category as i thought a snapshot of the thames would make the ideal document of my mini break the thing is as you ll see i didn t really stop at one photo 20 a natural body of water the thames glittering in the morning sunshine the thing we came to realise about the thames is that it s so ubiquitous you can see it from all kinds of locations throughout the city so much so that while our hotel sat right on the river with the front door being just metres away from the water s edge we could also see it from our room located at the back of the building and we couldn t really go far without bumping into although happily not falling into it so here are a few additional takes on my chosen natural body of water with essential london landmarks in the background the london eye tower bridge and while we re on the subject of bridges here s a glimpse of the thames taken while on a bridge and while under a bridge then with the tide out it was a little strange to hear the tidal lapping of the water a familiar sound from closer to home where the coast is just a few minutes drive away but not necessarily something i thought i d hear in a city and from moving with the tides we go back in time to when it froze over one of a series of plaques depicting the frost fairs held between the 17th and early 19th centuries when the thames would freeze over and while we re on the subject of doing brave things on the river i m much more of a landlubber here s a view of the thames from the back of a boat my friend kirsty and i took a trip up and down the river to and from greenwich and it was on our return that we sat in the splash zone with various small boys and other people who didn t mind getting wet when the engines were going full speed while i was there i took this photo as proof that this summer i did at least one activity that required the creation of an official escape plan makes me feel almost adventurous almost and finally for today here s yet another shot of the thames again with an famous london landmark in the background the houses of parliament and big ben only this time in the foreground i ve sneaked in another scavenger hunt category 21 a photograph of you with a sign reading 2015 summertime photography scavenger hunt i ll admit that i did worry if i d feel silly holding that up while on a very crowded bank side footpath then i saw just how many tourists were selfie sticking with gay abandon and i got over myself i ve now got just 2 categories left to find and my summertime hunt will be at an end is that autumn i can feel in the air starts thinking of what to document as the days begin to darken julie p s if you d like to catch up on my discoveries then do drop by my other scavenger hunt posts here the old book edition the hamlet ticket booth edition the out about on holiday edition the lincoln city centre edition the town centre edition the haven t i seen that outfit somewhere before edition and if f you wanted to join in the hunt then you still can it doesn t end until summer does just visit rinda as it s her brainchild and you can share your discoveries either via your blog or on instagram with the hashtag rindas2015photohunt or even join the facebook group and make sure to visit rinda s blog to catch her regular round ups and link posts posted by julie kirk at 07 00 7 comments labels rinda ontiveros gallo organico summertime photography scavenger hunt london email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday 25 august 2015 if we ve popped up and setlocked then this must be london hi you i m back i m now post london post hamlet post cumberbatch although as you ll see from where this post finishes up it s fair to say i m never entirely post cumberbatch i m more a case of permanently in between cumberbatches but until the next batch comes along a few paragraphs down in fact let s talk about the serendipity i stumbled over in the big smoke let s talk about things that pop up with the power to delight and let s talk about finding gnomes and holmes where you d least expect them the popping up while i may not live in or even particularly close to a city i still like to think of myself as pretty up to date with what s what with what s on the up with what s going down i may live 250 miles from the capital but for several reasons i don t live under a rock with a whippet for company heck i read i can use a hashtag i have at least 5 kinds of tea in the cupboard i watch skyarts documentaries for pleasure and i can even use the manual settings on my camera basically what i m trying to say is as my grandma would ve put it i m not as green as i m cabbage looking and yet until last week i d never been to a pop up restaurant they tend to be such city style phenomena don t they so when we stumbled across one in real life in the oxo building on london s south bank just metres from our hotel dare i admit that i really felt i had to go perhaps so that at the very least i could later proclaim like in a blog post or something ahem that i went to a pop up restaurant in london and while i was really looking forward to it i found myself being slightly unsure at the same time and began to feel like maybe there was slightly more green around my cabbage leaves as i d been willing to accept which was only appropriate considering the theme of this particular pop up the garden gate at oxo2 open until august 30th is decorated like part summer fete part english garden part woodland picnic its laid back atmosphere there were people playing table tennis and jenga was just what two tired achy people needed who d been walking around london for 3 days one of whom may or may not have been so emotional that they wept in a theatre one night and then again over breakfast the following morning for the record that last person wasn t james but then you d guessed that already hadn t you and what s better for lifting a crafty kitsch loving girl s spirits than sitting her on a gingham covered tree trunk next to a wall of fake hedging and artificial flowers not to mention the fact that if i d had the foresight to bring a garden gnome with me i apparently could have bagged myself a free drink in exchange and i ever so nearly packed one too just in case but it was that or my make up and needs must you can just make out here behind me the shelf where the donated gnomes end up and to continue the theme cocktails which i didn t have like my heightened hamlet influenced emotional state needed any alcoholic encouragement to tip over into hysteria were served in watering cans and the food well my black bean burger with guacamole which was the best thing i ve eaten all month was presented in a wooden garden crate complete with fries again amazing in a plant pot while james s steak arrived in a terracotta plant pot saucer and as if the experience couldn t get any better the price for both main courses came to just 18 00 i know after having paid 80 00 elsewhere for our first meal in the big bustling we can charge anything if you can see the thames while you re eating it metropolis this couldn t have been a more pleasant and welcome end our stay so if you re anywhere near the south bank in the next 5 days i can t recommend a trip to the garden gate highly enough and don t forget to take a gnome with you and while you re there you like james can look out for this sherlock the great game season 1 ep 3 bbc before you get too excited on my behalf this is not a holiday snap shot taken by me just as well really as there s a dead body laying just out of shot no it s a screenshot of a scene in the great game season 1 episode 3 of sherlock which was filmed on the south bank a fact which thought i m not entirely sure why had been lodged in james s head all the time we were there and so the accidental after the fact setlocking for the uninitiated setlock is the hashtag used by those people who trek around london seeking out finding and generally loitering around the set of sherlock while it s being filmed and while i love the show i m not so obsessed as to do that heck we were in london for 3 days and i didn t even insist we go to baker street so y know i m not that much of a crazy fan girl maybe next time and so as we d been walking along the riverside path each day james had been convinced that the scene which he could clearly picture in his head must have been filmed fairly near our hotel and or the pop up restaurant nearby he knew you could see st paul s in the background and that there was a wooden jetty wharf in shot meanwhile the main thing i could remember about the scene was a play on words between lestrade and sherlock sherlock meretritious lestrade and a happy new year which had made me laugh still does btw that fact that one of us remembered buildings while the other honed in on the word play tells you all you need to know about our respective differences once we d settled back in at home we re watched the episode so james could settle with himself once and for all if his savant like location hunting had been correct well here s the scene again and there s the dome of st paul s on the left and the wharf on the right but wait isn t that and that why yes yes it is and with that james was vindicated and wouldn t it have been even more entertaining and indeed a bit strange if entirely coincidentally we d walked along that very same wharf on our first night and if james had stopped to take a photo of our hotel and me hoping my skirt didn t whip up in the breeze while we were there well yes that would be strange and yet as much of the series is filmed in and around the city i don t doubt that we d inadvertently done lots more after the fact setlocking we just don t have the photos to back that up which may be just as well otherwise you d be beginning to think by now that i was a little bit of a sherlock geek and goodness me we couldn t have that could we thanks for taking time to read me today do feel free to share your own experiences of pop ups or let me know if you too have visited the garden gate or london s south bank or dare to admit you ve setlocked or maybe you ve visited locations where your own favourite shows films were filmed whether you were aware of it at the time or not i ll be here waiting to hear from you mulling over my time in the big smoke sneakily wiping away the shakespearean tinged tears julie posted by julie kirk at 13 38 13 comments labels sherlock oxo2 london 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