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Posted in Book Reviews on Jan 10th, 2009
I’m so behind with writing about the books I’ve read. I now have eight to do – five from the end of last year and three that I’ve read this month. I’ve already written snippets about Les Misérables, so I’ll begin with this book. My first encounter with the story was many years ago watching a serialisation on [...]
Posted in Teaser Tuesdays on Dec 2nd, 2008
MizB at Should be Reading hosts this weekly teaser. The idea is to pick two sentences from any page in the book you’re currently reading without giving away “spoilers”. I’m still reading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo so here from today’s reading are three sentences from page 764. This is from one of Hugo’s meditations or [...]
Posted in Books, Sunday Salon on Nov 23rd, 2008
What a gloomy day outside. I knew it was wet when my cat rubbed round my legs first thing this morning. Looking out of the window I could seen a fine sprinkling of snow. That’s all gone now and the rain has set in. What better thing to do than read Les Misérables for a [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Sunday Salon on Apr 27th, 2008
It’s been a good reading week here. I started and finished Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel and Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen. It was with some relief that I finally finished Eat, Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. Three very different books and I’m going to write separate posts on each of them. [...]
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