Mainly books, but also other pleasing things
Posted in Books, Fiction, Sunday Salon, Weekly Events on Aug 29th, 2010
One of my favourite bookshops is Barter Books in Alnwick, so a trip there is always a treat. We were actually on our way to visit friends in Lancashire but stopped for a coffee in the shop, which is in a converted railway station, absolutely full of all kinds of books. I didn’t have any [...]
Posted in Books, Sunday Salon, Weekly Events on Aug 1st, 2010
I’ve not been doing much reading or blogging as we’ve been away for a few days in the southeast of England and today we’re off again, this time to Germany. I’ve been thinking what books to take, bearing in mind that they should not be big and heavy (in weight), so I’m not taking Fleshmarket Close even though [...]
Posted in Books, Sunday Salon, Weekly Events on Jul 25th, 2010
This morning I was wondering what to read next. I finished reading Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Vanora Bennett yesterday, and have almost finished The Gourmet by Muriel Barbery, and think I need a change. Maybe it’s time for an autobiography or a biography. I have several to choose from, some I’ve had for [...]
Posted in Books, Sunday Salon, Uncategorized, Weekly Events on Jun 27th, 2010
I’ve seen others have been writing a sort of meme ”confessing up ” to the books they haven’t read, so I thought I would too. These are the books that maybe I “should have read” by now but haven’t yet got round to. I don’t actually believe there is any “should” about it, but there seems to [...]
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 Books, Sunday Salon on Jun 13th, 2010
I’ve been thinking about books I own but haven’t read yet and wondering why I haven’t even though some of them have been sitting on my bookshelves for a long time. There are a number of reasons, apart from the fact that I keep getting more books before reading all the ones I’ve already got. They [...]
Posted in Books, Sunday Salon on Jun 6th, 2010
Currently I’m reading The Right Attitude to Rain, the third Isabel Dalhousie novel by Alexander McCall Smith. It’s the sort of book that makes me pause whilst I’m reading it and think about what I’ve read. It’s not a book to rush through at top speed to find out what happens, but rather a book to [...]
Posted in Crime Fiction, Sunday Salon on May 30th, 2010
Today I’ve been dipping into The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction by Barry Forshaw, published in 2007. This is an excellent little book giving “a selection of the best in crime writing over the last century or so, organized by subject (or sub-genre)”. There are succinct book reviews, ‘top five’ lists for writers such as [...]
Posted in Books, Sunday Salon on May 23rd, 2010
This week I’ve been reading Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel and The Very Thought of You by Rosie Alison, both shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. I’ve finished both of them and can’t find any easy way to compare them. They are such different books, Wolf Hall – historical fiction about big events, full of [...]
Posted in Books, Sunday Salon on May 16th, 2010
I keep a record of the books I read but it’s meaningless to think of them in terms of how many I read because that depends not only on their length but also on the nature and complexity of the books. I’ve read three books so far this month: 100 Days on Holy Island: a Writer’s Exile by Peter Mortimer [...]
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