Don’t Look Now and Other Stories – Discovering Daphne Readalong #4
4/5 Thanks to Simon lending me his library copy of Don’t Look Now and Other Stories on Monday (after I was able to hunt out my own last weekend), I am able to conclude Discovering Daphne! This copy...
View ArticleA Grief Observed, by C.S. Lewis
4/5 Does it seem morbid to choose to read a book about grief? I spotted this slim volume – A Grief Observed – on the library returns shelf and was drawn to the title which stood out as unusual. I …...
View ArticleReading notes 2 – Feat. Edmund de Waal, Kazuro Ishiguro and Juli Zeh
A little while ago I did this post of mini reviews which I found rather a good way of catching up with myself. Sometimes a girl is rushing around so much she realises she’s read lots of books that she...
View ArticleIn Love and Trouble, by Alice Walker
5/5 I have loved reading this book. In the last few weeks it’s felt as if I haven’t been able to stop, but each time I picked Alice Walker’s collection of short stories, I felt as if time was suspended...
View ArticleThe Visitor, by Maeve Brennan
3/5 Originally written in the 1940s, The Visitor is a novella about a young woman named Anastasia, who returns to Ireland after living in Paris for six years. When she arrives, her Grandmother – Mrs...
View ArticleEline Vere by Louis Couperus
5/5 I planned to spend Sunday reading through extracts from the Waterstone’s Eleven choices, that I picked up on Thursday, but instead gave in to my desire to finish the last 80 pages of the WONDERFUL...
View ArticleThe Red Tent, by Anita Diamant
4/5 In The Red Tent, Anita Diamant takes a fleeting moment in the Old Testament of the Bible and transforms it into an epic narrative. Dinah is a biblical character around which a violent set of events...
View ArticleAnne Frank – Diary of a Young Girl
5/5 At almost twice the age Anne was when she write the last lines in her famous diary, I think back and try to remember back to my own inner-monologue as a teenager. On one hand I wonder at her...
View ArticleAnd here are the books I read while I was away…
Over the past few months I guess I maybe haven’t read as much as I usually would. I’m not sure if that was just being very busy doing other things, or a bit of reading-fatigue. I do think I felt less …...
View ArticleSweet Tooth, by Ian McEwan
4/5 If you are a fan of Ian McEwan’s writing then Sweet Tooth shouldn’t disappoint. Set in the early 1970s in the shadow of the Cold War and IRA violence, the story follows Sylvia Frome, an attractive...
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