Ramblings of a Bookworm
Posted in Books, Sunday Salon on Oct 12th, 2008
Sometimes I wish I could just concentrate on reading one book at a time. What usually happens is that I start reading a book and then another one grabs my attention and then yet another one, and another one. Before I know it I’ve started lots of them. Of course I don’t actually read them [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Linda Grant on Oct 11th, 2008
Vivian, the only child of refugee parents, grows up at Benson Court in London during the 1960s and 1970s. Her parents are quiet, timid people, and they live a sheltered life, wanting to be inconspicuous. Vivian describes herself as
the child of old parents, a pair of cranky odd Europeans with wierd opinions. Oppressive ideas formed in the stale gloom.
As [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, John Wyndham, RIP Challenge on Oct 10th, 2008
Chocky by John Wyndham qualifies for the RIP Challenge in the Supernatural category. It seems at first as though Matthew has an invisible friend, just like his little sister’s Piff, who appeared when Polly was about five. Matthew at eleven seemed a little bit old for such a friend, and when his father overhears him having [...]
Posted in Booking through Thursday, Books on Oct 9th, 2008
As you can see from the title of this post I’m not at home. Today’s question on BTT is:
I’ve seen this series of questions floating around the ‘net the last few days, and thought it looked like a good one for us!
What was the last book you bought?
Actually I bought two. One is The Secret [...]
Posted in Books, Poppy Adams, Teaser Tuesdays on Oct 7th, 2008
This is the first time I’ve done a Teaser Tuesday post, which Should be Reading hosts.
The idea is that you:
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 [...]
Posted in Books, Tuesday Thingers on Oct 7th, 2008
Tuesday Thingers
This week’s question: -LibraryThing’s Recently Added feature: do you look at it? Do you use it for ideas? Is there something listed there now that looks interesting to you? What have you added to your LT library recently?
My answer: I hardly ever look at Recently Added (the one that shows what other people have added, although [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Kate Summerscale, Non-fiction, Sunday Salon on Oct 5th, 2008
It’s raining and cold here for today’s Sunday Salon post. Summer wasn’t very long this year but then it often isn’t. It wasn’t in England in 1860 according to my reading today in Kate Summerscale’s remarkable book The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House, when summer was brought to an [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Joyce Carol Oates, RIP Challenge on Oct 3rd, 2008
I finished The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates last week and parts of it have remained in my mind. Mainly I think it’s the general atmosphere of its world. It’s a grim, dark world, a violent and pessimistic world, gothic and grotesque. In some ways it reminds me of Hardy’s novels - you know something terrible will [...]
Posted in Booking through Thursday, Books on Oct 2nd, 2008
Today’s Booking through Thursday’s question is: What, in your opinion, is the best book that you haven’t liked? Mind you, I don’t mean your most-hated book–oh, no. I mean the most accomplished, skilled, well-written, impressive book that you just simply didn’t like.
I find this question quite hard to answer, mainly because if I don’t like [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Daphne Du Maurier, Linda Grant, RIP Challenge, Sunday Salon on Sep 28th, 2008
This last week has been yet another week away from home and reading has had to be slotted in. I read late at night when I nodded off with a book in my hand or early in the mornings when the time speeds up at an alarming rate so I hardly felt I’d read much at [...]
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