Ramblings of a Bookworm
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Books, Challenges, Food, Nigel Slater, Soup's On on Jun 3rd, 2008
Nigel Slater’s Toast is the story of his childhood and adolescence told through food; food he liked and food he hated. Reading it was a nostalgic remembrance of my childhood, even though mine was so very different from his, apart from the food. My mother, unlike his, was a good cook, but she did stick to [...]
Posted in Annie Proulx, Books, Nigel Slater, Sunday Salon on Jun 1st, 2008
Today’s Sunday Salon post is a bit brief. We’ve been away for the last two days, travelling to Scotland and back and I’m rather tired, and have only read for a short time today. I began reading The Shipping News a while back and picked that up again this morning. It’s one of the books [...]
Posted in Nigel Slater on May 29th, 2008
I’ve been watching Nigel Slater’s TV programmes A Taste of My Life. So enjoyable!
I finished reading Atonement yesterday and am in the middle of writing about it, but I felt I needed to read something less heart-rending. I’ve been reading mostly books about or set in the Second World War, enlightening but serious stuff. And [...]
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