Category: Books

Published in 1932

(Reviewed as part of Jane’s Birthday Book of Underappreciated Lady Authors and for The Classics Club.)

Continue reading “Jenny Wren by E H Young”

2nd March

On March 1st the latest Classics Club spin was announced.  This will be spin number 17 for the club and my third.  It’s a year since I last participated – in part because it took me almost all that time (with gaps) to read my last spin choice, which was J. B. Priestley’s The Good Companions.  That book finally finished (though not yet reviewed – no great surprise there), I’m ready for the next spin.  Details of how it works can be found here. Continue reading “My Third Classics Club Spin”

Six Degrees of Separation is hosted by Kate at books are my favourite and best.  Every month Kate chooses a book as a starting point for a chain of six books, each one linked in some way to the book before.  This will be my third chain and I’ve found it the most difficult so far – but only because there seemed to be so many possibilities to choose between, especially to get off the starting block.  Perhaps, given the current focus on our weather here in the UK, it’s no surprise that wintry words find their way into my chain. Continue reading “Six Degrees of Separation: from The Beauty Myth to …”

Published in 1932

(Reviewed as part of Jane’s Birthday Book of Underappreciated Lady Authors and also for The Classics Club)

Continue reading “Greenbanks by Dorothy Whipple”

Time to move on in the alphabet; it’s now the turn of D, E and F.  All six from the first two lists of those I own and those I don’t have been read (with Christmas and various other books threaded in between).  And the close contender which just missed the cut for ‘B’ in those I don’t – The Birdwatcher by William Shaw – is being read this week. Continue reading “An A – Z of those I own”

Published as a serial 1836 – 1837

(Reviewed as part of The Classics Club Challenge)  Continue reading “The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens”

Six Degrees of Separation is hosted by Kate at books are my favourite and best.  This will be my second month of taking part.  Each month Kate chooses a book as a starting point for a chain of six books, each one linked in some way to the book before.  Everyone’s chains are so different!  Mine this month has certainly surprised me.  I’ve tried to go with the first book that came to mind as I went along.  My mind certainly works in mysterious ways! Continue reading “Six Degrees of Separation: from Lincoln in the Bardo …”

Six Degrees of Separation is hosted by Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best. Every month she provides the title of a book as a starting point and the idea is to link it to six other books to form a chain. A book doesn’t have to be connected to all of the others on the list – only to the one next to it in the chain.  I’ve often enjoyed reading the chains created by others, and it’s fascinating how different they all are.  I’ve thought about joining in several times.  I’m a little late in the month, but I’m going to dive in anyway. Continue reading “Six Degrees of Separation: from No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency to England, Their England”

The choice is limited for my parallel series of posts: An A – Z of those I own.  I really don’t have that many books sitting unread on the shelves so there’s not that many to choose between for each letter.  The choice for An A – Z of those I don’t own but would like to read is a little more daunting.  There is a such a thing as too much choice.  But here we go… Continue reading “An A – Z of those I don’t”