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, 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, 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, Joyce Carol Oates, Sunday Salon on Sep 21st, 2008
Last Sunday I wrote that I’d started The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates. I’m still reading it. I really shouldn’t write much about it as I haven’t finished it and I’m wondering how it is going to end. I thought I could predict the ending but then something happened which made me think, maybe [...]
Posted in Joyce Carol Oates, Sunday Salon on Sep 7th, 2008
I thought I wouldn’t manage to write a Sunday Salon post today but find I do have a little time just to write a short post. Yesterday I finished reading Old School by Tobias Wolff, one of the best books I’ve read recently. I’ll write a post about it later in the week.
I’ve not done [...]
Posted in Books, Katharine McMahon, Sunday Salon on Aug 31st, 2008
Last Sunday found me in Ancient Egypt. Today I’ve been flitting between the Crimea, London and Italy with the Victorians whilst reading The Rose of Sebastopol by Katharine McMahon. I’m about half-way through this historical romance that switches from place to place and backwards and forwards between1844, 1854 and 1855 making me wondering where and when I am. Apart [...]
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, 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 Books, Sunday Salon, Thomas Hardy on Jul 13th, 2008
Today I haven’t done much reading so far. I’m in the middle of a few books, which because it’s physically impossible to actually read more than one book at a time means that I start a book, stop, start another one, stop start another and so on. This is because I like to vary my [...]
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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