The Aardvark Blog

Thoughts about 2025 continued
8/02/2025

Ethel has been spending long evenings cloistered in the office on the accounts for the last week, which has reluctantly furnished me with more reading time than I am used to. I am glad to say that her travails are now at an end, and my hope is that all will return to normal in Aardvark Towers in the coming weeks.

Still, I have been able to finish several of the books on my Christmas list, and to start the Everestian journey of completing the 900+ page of the multi-biography 'Ninth Street Women'. In the interim I have been diving into some British Library crime reprints, and speed re-reading a Michael Connelly to work out where the last Netflix series differed from the book (not much,  but the next one will need radical surgery as they are moving onto 'The Law of Innocence' which is full of Harry Bosch - a character that Netflix do not have the rights to show). Many conversions of books to screen fall into the Scylla and Charybdis of being caught between being too faithful to the books, or not faithful enough. Both the Lincoln Lawyer and the Harry Bosch novels have been hitherto well filmed, and I am hoping that this will continue as it would be a shame if they were to fail at the last.

Lucy has been working hard at putting our events for the year onto the website, and at making new cards with all the market dates for the year. This year we have decided to hold only one market in May and not to attempt it in October, as the weather has been terrible for the last three years on that weekend. This means that for stallholders and visitors there are fewer opportunities to nab a bargain, so make your plans now!

Instead of markets, we have added a second warehouse sale - this one starting at Easter time. I realise that I have been boring visitors rigid on the subject of the overflowing book stocks in the warehouse, but this year Ethel has really put her foot down and if I am going to be allowed to buy all the wonderful books that I know are heading in my direction this year (we are only just over a month  from London Book Fair and already my book-buying juices are starting to work at the thought of all the fantastic new books heading our way), then I need to deal with the books already bought. I have told to be ruthless so there will be some fantastic bargains on offer this year (including toooons of Orange Penguins.

Look out for the start of Borderlines Film Festival on 28th February (brochures available from Aardvark), and let us all dream about the coming of Spring, which this morning seems I confess a long way away, so I am including a photograph of daffodils to give us hope for what is coming.