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A Thank You And A Flurry To Come…
Tulips in the Tulip Museum by buck82 It's always a little strange coming back to a blog after a couple of days away - sort of like slinking back into the room at a conference - so I just want to say a...
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An Update: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
I don't often do this with a book I've reviewed but I do want to flag this one up to you again. I wasn't surprised to see Life After Life by Kate Atkinson on the Women's Prize for Fiction longlist...
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Getting Started With The Wings of the Dove
Hey folks, much to my surprise (and glee) tmy post about my first pick from the book jar being The Wings of the Dove led to two wonderful readers - Pam at Travellin' Penguin and Lisa at Bluestalking -...
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Two Author Events: David Crystal and Kate Atkinson
This week, after months without going to a bookish events, I managed to fit in two great author talks - David Crystal on being obsessed with words and the history of language at Waterstones Leeds and...
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Mini-Review: Encyclopedia of British Women’s Writing, 1900-1950
Edited by Faye Hammill, Esme Miskimmin, Ashlie Sponenberg A mini-review for a very useful resource... Continue reading →
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Every Reader Is His Own Best Critic
One of the authors I have returned to as part of my essay reading challenge this year is one of my earlier reading loves, W. Somerset Maugham. I'll be writing a full review of the collection of essays...
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The Wings Of The Dove: Slippery and Delicate
So, as I confessed earlier, I was daunted when the book jar offered up The Wings of the Dove by Henry James as my first choice and decided to break the task down and tackle the first couple of 'Books'...
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The Book Jar Page
Since I'm going to be using my book jar at least once a month and there's been so much interest in the idea I'm creating this page as a starting point explaining what a book jar actually is (so I can...
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Review: The Exiles Return by Elisabeth de Waal
If the name de Waal seems familiar to you, it might be because you've previously read or heard of Edmund de Waal's narrative non-fiction title, The Hare With The Amber Eyes. Edmund is Elisabeth's...
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Zapping The TBR With Two Upcoming Readathons
Bookshelves of Halldór Laxness by qtea As anyone who's been reading this site for a while will know, I love a readathon. I prefer the ones in spring and summer - more natural light, not so hard on the...
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Easter 2013 Readathon: The Pile
This weekend I am going to give myself almost entirely over to the pleasure of curling up in a comfy chair, cat at my feet, green tea at my side and a book in hand. Such are the pleasures of being a...
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Easter 2013 Readathon: Update The First
Spring Sunshine Colours by alkmista85 Yesterday was a glorious day. The first sunny day we've had in what feels like weeks, the snow melting even from the stubbornest of shadowy roofs and pavements...
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Review: Stet by Diana Athill
Stet, sometimes published as Stet:An Editor's Life, is Diana Athill's fourth volume of memoir (she's published six in total) and the one specifically dealing with her career in the London publishing...
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Sad News About Iain M Banks
So, Iain M Banks is dying of cancer and has mere months to live. Sad to hear as although I won't claim him as a favourite author or flawless I had the pleasure of meeting him a couple of times and...
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Review: Findings by Kathleen Jamie
I'm not sure what I expected from Jamie's writing. Much has been made of the fact that he's an award winning poet and teaches Creative Writing at university level but I think a truer influence on the...
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Running Away To A Foreign Shore…
Filicudi Island, West Coast by CyboRoZ I've been a member of the Slaves of Golconda online reading group for a while now (and a lurker for even longer!) so I'm delighted that it's my chance to offer...
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Mini-Review: Island Wife by Judy Fairbairns
I had the chance to review this unusual tale of island life for WLTB recently. Here's my mini-review... Continue reading →
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Snippet: In Your Garden by Vita Sackville-West
Garden Posy by Penelope Waits I'm going to share my thoughts on the whole of In Your Garden on Monday but it includes this wonderful piece that I didn't have the heart to quote just a small piece from...
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Mini-Review: The Sunshine Years by Afsaneh Knight
I had the chance to review this angsty tale of hitting thirty and wondering 'What Next?' for New Books Magazine recently. Here's my mini-review... Continue reading →
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TSS: Zoladdiction and Re-Assessing Authors
This is Emile Zola as you rarely see him. It's a photograph by Etienne Carjat dating from about 1865, six years before he began his massive twenty novel series, Les Rougon-Macquart. I went looking for...
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