Category: Books

This may be spin no. 14 but it will be my first.  The way it works is detailed here. Continue reading “My First Classics Club spin”

Serialised 1869

Published in book form 1870

Cover cover from 1928 edition

Louisa May Alcott aged about 25

(Reviewed as part of the Classic Club challenge) 
Continue reading “An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott”

I told myself that I would not get embroiled in the many enticing challenges that I see everywhere in the book-blogging world.  Just the initial one, I told myself, just the Classics Club.  Plus the few personal ones that I’d set for myself anyway.  Continue reading “Books, lists and challenges – 3 of my favourite things”

Published 1937

(Reviewed as part of the Classics Club Challenge) Continue reading “Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck”

Published 1949

(Reviewed as part of the Classics Club Challenge) Continue reading “I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith”

Published as a serial 1837 – 39

(Reviewed as part of the Classics Club Challenge) Continue reading “Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens”

Published 1848

(Reviewed as part of the Classics Club Challenge) Continue reading “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte”

Published: 1989

(Reviewed as part of my Classics Club challenge and for All Things Cornish)

Continue reading “Enchanted Cornwall by Daphne du Maurier”

I have had so much fun with this list.  I could go on tweaking it forever but the longer I delay, the longer the list becomes.  So it’s time to post it and move along; time to stop tweaking and begin reading. Continue reading “At Last: The List”

After at least a fortnight, today we have rain.  Soft, gentle, Cornish rain which had obviously been with us for some hours before I smelt it through the open window.  Isn’t the smell of rain wonderful?  And the senses detect things differently.  Sounds seem muted, yet colours are the opposite: many of the wild flowers seem at their brightest in the sullen light that accompanies rain. Continue reading “The Classics Club”