Mainly books, but also other pleasing things
Posted in Biography, Books, Crime Fiction, Fiction, Non-fiction on Aug 14th, 2010
I’ve recently finished Whatever You Love by Louise Doughty and am over halfway into The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens. Even though I’ve started The Serpent Pool by Martin Edwards I’m thinking what to read after that. I have a number of books lined up – my birthday books for example, but I have [...]
Posted in Biography, Books, Crime Fiction, Fiction, Non-fiction on Aug 10th, 2010
These are the books I had for my birthday. The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction is a reference book that I can just dip into. The rest are all books I’d love to read immediately. If you click on the photo you’ll see from the enlarged view showing the creasing on the spine that I’ve already [...]
Posted in Biography, Books, Bookshops, Fiction, Friday Finds, History, Non-fiction, Weekly Events on Jul 9th, 2010
New-to-me books this week are Naming the Bones by Louise Welsh, and The Sisters who would be Queen by Leanda de Lisle. Louise Welsh is the author of The Cutting Room, a dark mystery, which I read several years ago and thought was good, if rather scary. Naming the Bones looks promising: Knee-deep in the [...]
Posted in Biography, Book Reviews, Non-fiction on Jun 4th, 2010
In December 1926 Agatha Christie disappeared from her home, Styles, in Berkshire. She was found eleven days later in a hotel in Harrogate, Yorkshire apparently suffering from amnesia. Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days by Jared Cade delves into the mystery of her disappearance. The book is not just about those eleven days but [...]
Posted in Biography, Book Reviews, Non-fiction on Mar 10th, 2010
Why do writers write? How do they go about it? What inspires them? The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories gives a glimpse into the mind of Daphne Du Maurier. Du Maurier began to write Rebecca in 1937 when she was thirty years old, living in Alexandria and feeling homesick for Cornwall. She jotted down chapter [...]
Posted in Biography, Book Reviews, Early Reviewer, LibraryThing, Non-fiction, Poetry on Mar 4th, 2010
I didn’t know much about Shelley before I read Poetic Lives: Shelley by Daniel Hahn. This biography gives brief details of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s short but extraordinary life, from his birth in 1792 to his early death in 1822, shortly before his thirtieth birthday. The opening paragraph caught my immediate attention in pointing out that Shelley was not that far [...]
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Booking through Thursday on Nov 5th, 2009
Deb’s question today is: Which do you prefer? Biographies written about someone? Or Autobiographies written by the actual person (and/or ghost-writer)? I’m not sure I can decide which I prefer. I read both biographies and autobiographies and they both have their pros and cons. Both can be biased and written to present a certain portrait, [...]
Posted in Biography, Book Reviews, Non-fiction on Jul 4th, 2009
It’s been a few weeks since I finished reading Jane Austen: a Life by Claire Tomalin. I listed this book as one I hadn’t reviewed in a Weekly Geeks post - the idea being to spur me on to writing the outstanding reviews and invite questions about the books from other book bloggers. Dorothy, who sent me the [...]
I’ve previously written about what I was reading ten years ago so when I read Literary Feline’s post about the books she read in January 2004. I thought I’d have a look at what I was reading five years ago. It was in that month that I once again tried to keep track of my reading [...]
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction on Jan 12th, 2009
I’m still catching up with writing about books I read last year. Wild Mary by Patrick Marnham is a biography of Mary Wesley, the author of Camomile Lawn and other books. My only knowledge of her before reading this was that her first book was published when she was 70 and my impression was that she [...]
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