Ramblings of a Bookworm
Posted in Books, Don DeLillo, Teaser Tuesdays on Nov 18th, 2008
The Teaser Tuesday rules are:
Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book [...]
Posted in Awards, Michael Gilbert on Nov 15th, 2008
Thank you to Zetor over on Mog’s Blog who has given me this award.
Here are the rules:
Open the closest book to you, not your favourite or most intellectual book, but the book closest to you at the moment. Turn to page 56…. Write out the fifth sentence, as well as two to five sentences following there. Then [...]
Posted in Books, D H Lawrence, Museums on Nov 13th, 2008
At the weekend D and I went to Nottingham and whilst there we visited D H Lawrence’s birthplace at Eastwood, 8 miles from Nottingham. 8A Victoria Street is the house where Lawrence was born on 11 September 1885 and I think it is a fascinating place. The house was newly built when the Lawrence family [...]
Posted in Books, Erich Maria Remarque on Nov 11th, 2008
I’m currently reading All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. So it seems appropriate today on 90th anniversary of the end of World War 1, with the cease fire on the Western Front, to quote from this book:
The horror of the front fades away when you turn your back on it, so we can attack it [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Georgette Heyer, Georgette Heyer Reading Challenge on Nov 5th, 2008
Friday’s Child is the first book I’ve read by Georgette Heyer. It is completely different from the type of books I normally read and at first I thought I wouldn’t like it but I soon changed my mind. It’s a light-hearted novel that’s easy to read, although full of Heyer’s Regency slang.
In 1943 when she [...]
Posted in Biography, Valerie Grove on Nov 1st, 2008
I’ve just finished reading Dear Dodie: the life of Dodie Smith by Valerie Grove. It has taken some time to read as at first I only read short sections at a sitting. This week I have spent more time on it - one reason being that it is a library book and I can’t renew it. [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Poppy Adams on Oct 30th, 2008
A brillliant book.
It’s the story of two sisters, Ginny and Vivi. Vivi, the younger sister left the family mansion 47 years earlier and returns unexpectedly one weekend. Ginny, a reclusive moth expert has rarely left the house in all that time. What happens when they meet again is shocking to both of them. It’s a story full of [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Man Booker Prize, Sebastian Barry on Oct 28th, 2008
I knew very little about The Secret Scripture when I started reading it, apart from the fact that it was on the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize and it was about an old woman in a mental hospital in Ireland, secretly writing her life story. I’d not long finished The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Georges Simenon on Oct 25th, 2008
I used to enjoy the TV series Maigret with Rupert Davies in the title role and when I came across this book I thought it was time to renew my acquaintance. Lock 14 was originally published in 1931 as Le Charretier de la ‘Providence’ and translated as Maigret Meets a Milord in 1963. It’s a [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, RIP Challenge, Robert Louis Stevenson, Short Stories on Oct 16th, 2008
The Body Snatcher and Olalla are two short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson included in my copy of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, a Penguin Classic. Both stories were written for the Christmas “crawler” tradition in 1884 and 1885. Christmas was a season traditionally associated with supernatural and creepy tales. In [...]
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