Ramblings of a Bookworm
Posted in Book Reviews, What's In a Name on Sep 6th, 2008
In August I read a beautiful little book- it was a birthday present - James Herriot’s Cat Stories. It was a great relief to read this book after some of the books (about war and disasters) I’d been reading lately and this book with its lovely illustrations by Lesley Holmes cheered me up immensely. That’s not to say it [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Sep 2nd, 2008
Mathias Freese kindly sent me Down To a Sunless Sea to review a while ago. It has taken me some time to read it, mainly because it’s a collection of fifteen short stories, covering a number of difficult topics and I have found it quite painful to read. I don’t know if I can really do [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Sunday Salon on Aug 24th, 2008
I started to read Nefertiti by Michelle Moran a bit ago and just in the last few days have picked it up again. Nefertiti is most irritating - insufferably self-confident, arrogant, demanding, lusting after power, manipulative, superior, full of her own self-importance and well, beautiful; just as you would expect her to be, a jealous [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Robert Harris on Aug 20th, 2008
Recently I’ve been going from book to book and not finishing any of them, apart from Pompeii by Richard Harris. If you’ve read my recent posts you’ll maybe understand why I’ve been unable to concentrate on reading, but even if the words have not been making much sense as I read them I find the [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Paul Auster, Sunday Salon on Jul 27th, 2008
It’s been a really hot day here today, stifling in fact, and far too humid for me to be comfortable. This is the sort of weather that makes me feel limp and exhausted even if I didn’t have toothache. So I’ve taken things easy today, dosed myself with painkillers and read Paul Auster’s new book Man [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Celebrate the Author, Joanne Harris on Jul 18th, 2008
July’s Birthday author is Joanne Harris (3 July), so I read Chocolat (with apologies to Ann!) There is so much more to this book than a simple story about a chocolaterie.
This is a fabulous book. I saw the film a few years ago (so I’ve forgotten the details) and loved that and amazingly the book is even [...]
Posted in Antonia Fraser, Book Reviews on Jul 15th, 2008
Jemima Shore, writer and presenter of the television programme “Jemima Shore Investigates” is flat-sitting for her friend Chloe Fontaine, also a writer. The block of flats is a controversial development in a large Georgian square close to the British Library, which is ideal for Jemima as she plans to spend most of her time there researching for her next [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Muriel Spark on Jul 12th, 2008
I was pleased this book was chosen for discussion for Cornflower’s Book Group because I thought it was a brilliant book when I first read it some years ago. I like to re-read books I’ve enjoyed and sometimes I find that my views/mood have changed and I no longer think the book is as good as I first [...]
Posted in Baroness Orczy, Book Reviews, Challenges, Heart of a Child, What's In a Name on Jul 9th, 2008
I’ve had my copy of The Scarlet Pimpernel for a long time. I can’t remember how long and there is no date in the book - all I know is that it cost 3s 6d and I must have been about 11, 12 or 13 when I first read it. Once I started to read it [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Challenges, Chunkster Challenge, Kate Morton, Sunday Salon on Jul 6th, 2008
Last August I read The House at Riverton by Kate Morton and thought it was one of the best books I’d read in 2007. So it was with great anticipation that I started to read The Forgotten Garden. It starts off well, with a little girl in London in 1913 on a boat bound for [...]
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