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 Books, Challenges, Fiction, Non-fiction, Paris in July on Jul 3rd, 2010
I’m not actually going to Paris this month, but BookBath and Thyme For Tea are hosting a blogging experience to celebrate all things French and Parisian running from the 1st – 31st July this year called “Paris In July“. The aim of the month is to celebrate our French experiences through reading, watching, listening to, observing, cooking [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Non-fiction on Jun 22nd, 2010
Bad Science is mainly about health issues, and how they are reported in the press which surprised me as I expected it to be more wide-ranging. It shouldn’t have been such a surprise as Ben Goldacre is a qualified doctor, working for the NHS. He also exposes the ‘tricks of the £30 billion food supplements industry and [...]
Posted in Books, Crime Fiction, England, Non-fiction, Scotland, Sunday Salon, Weekly Events on Jun 20th, 2010
This morning I’ve been reading The Border Line by Eric Robson, of interest because we live near the border – the one between England and Scotland. This is the account of Robson’s walk following the border line from the Solway Firth to Berwick-upon-Tweed. It’s also interesting because Robson includes anecdotes, snippets of history and personal memories [...]
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 Book Reviews, Memoirs, Non-fiction on May 4th, 2010
After I finished reading 100 Days On Holy Island the main impression it made on me was that Peter Mortimer endured his hundred days there, feeling insecure, wanting company and to be accepted. He always felt an ‘outsider’, not accepted by the locals. He recognised his paranoia: Part of Mortimer’s paranoia while on Lindisfarne was [...]
Posted in Food, Musings, Non-fiction, Personal, Weekend Cooking on May 2nd, 2010
Weekend Cooking is open to anyone who has any kind of food-related post to share: Book (novel, nonfiction) reviews, cookbook reviews, movie reviews, recipes, random thoughts, gadgets, fabulous quotations, photographs. My food thoughts this weekend have been coloured by a passage I read in 100 Days on Holy Island: A Writer’s Exile by Peter Mortimer. He [...]
Posted in Books, Crime Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Library Loot, Non-fiction on May 1st, 2010
I hadn’t intended to borrow any more library books for a while, at least until I’ve read at least half of the ones I’ve got out at present. But on Thursday I was watering the hanging basket at the front door and glancing down the road saw a mobile library van. We moved here in [...]
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