Ramblings of a Bookworm
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Georgette Heyer, Georgette Heyer Reading Challenge on Nov 5th, 2008
Friday’s Child is the first book I’ve read by Georgette Heyer. It is completely different from the type of books I normally read and at first I thought I wouldn’t like it but I soon changed my mind. It’s a light-hearted novel that’s easy to read, although full of Heyer’s Regency slang.
In 1943 when she [...]
Posted in Books, Sunday Salon on Oct 19th, 2008
This week I’ve been travelling in time and place in my reading.
I’ve been in Pennsylvania and Connecticut with Gladys Taber and Barbara Webster reading their letters to each other from Stillmeadow and Sugarbridge over one year in the 1950s (the book was published in 1953; there’s been no mention of the Second World War so I’m [...]
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 [...]
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