Category: Books

Published 1993

(Reviewed as part of the Classics Club Challenge and the Prizewinner Challenge) Continue reading “The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx”

Tracking this tag back to its source, I have  The Library Lizard to thank for setting these questions.  Time travel isn’t something I would normally associate with my choice of reading matter so I wondered if I’d have any answers to offer.  But   the lovely Jane at Beyond Eden Rock suggested I might like to have a go and it’s been a good way of focusing my thoughts, and turning those thoughts into a post – something I’m struggling with at the moment. I’ve had a thoroughly indulgent few hours pottering among my book lists and books shelves, making my choices, collating my answers and then wandering through the choices of others before me.  Thanks to Jane and The Library Lizard for such an enjoyable afternoon!

Continue reading “The Bookish Time Travel Tag”

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”