Ramblings of a Bookworm
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 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 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 [...]
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 Books, Georgette Heyer, Georgette Heyer Reading Challenge on Aug 30th, 2008
I don’t know whether it’s the time of year, summer drawing to a close and the promise of autumn in the air, but I feel in need of a change. Autumn always makes me think of doing new things anyway so when I read about the Georgette Heyer Reading Challenge it seemed just the time to [...]
Posted in Books, RIP Challenge on Aug 29th, 2008
It feels like autumn is very near now, if not actually here as I’ve noticed the leaves are already turning golden on some trees. And it’s that time of year approaching, when “things go bump in the night”, or in other words it’s time for the RIP III Challenge, Readers Imbibing Peril. This year I’m [...]
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 Book Awards Challenge, Books, Challenges on Jul 11th, 2008
As the Heart of the Child Challenge finishes on 14 July and I’ve all but finished the Chunkster Challenge I’ve decided to start a new one. This is the Book Awards Challenge which starts on 1 August and ends on 1 June 2009. It is one of those challenges where you can change the books you’ve [...]
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 Cookery, Food, Nigella Lawson, Soup's On on Jul 7th, 2008
I first thought of writing about Nigella Lawson’s How To Eat when I joined the Soup’s On! Challenge as it’s one of her books that I have used a lot. It’s a long book - over 500 pages, nearly all covered in words, with just a few pages of photos. I love just dipping into it and reading for [...]
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