Shelf Control is a feature that I borrowed from Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies. This feature is all about celebrating the books already on your TBR. To participate, you pick one of the books on your TBR each Wednesday and write a post about it (what it's all about, what makes you want to read it, where you…
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Wodehouse in 1930 Image source: By Unlisted photographer for Screenland - Screenland, August 1930 (Vol XXI, No 4); p. 20, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40891112 Only the author of a thesaurus could have done justice to his emotions as he walked. Roget, for instance, would have described him as glad, happy, pleased, elated, entranced, ecstatic and overjoyed, and…
The Shakespeare Project: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act II
This is the second of my posts on A Midsummer Night's Dream, part of the Shakespeare Project that I started on this blog earlier this month. Read what that's all about here. The first of these posts on Act I of this play is here. The summary and discussion below does contain spoilers so please bear that…
Shelf Control #6
Shelf Control is a feature that I borrowed from Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies. This one is all about celebrating the books already on your TBR waiting to be picked up. All you need to do to participate is to pick one of the books on your TBR each Wednesday and write a post about it (what it's…
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"I've always thought that you can never have too much room for books and quiet contemplation." --Geoffrey McSkimming, Cairo Jim and the Secret Sepulchre of the Sphinx (1999)
Malory Towers Challenge: First Term at Malory Towers
So a couple of months ago I wrapped up my Five Findouters Challenge which was all about reading the Findouters books by Enid Blyton (15 in the series) chronologically (my review of that challenge is here), and then decided to pick up next, this series of school stories by Blyton which I don’t know as…
Children’s Book of the Month: Cairo Jim and the Secret Sepulchre of the Sphinx
This was a chance find on the shop-soiled table in my local bookshop. The cover grabbed me because of the title—an Egyptian setting obviously, the Sphinx, and the ‘hero’—a Tintin-like character hanging onto the Sphinx’s nose. This is the sixth of a series of eighteen books (though according to some listings it’s the ninth) by…
Review: Storm in the Village
I loved this book so much so am sharing my review here as well--it appears as usual on goodreads here. I’ve read only a few books by Miss Read so far, but each one I’ve picked up has been delightful and this one proved no different. Storm in the Village is the third of her Fairacre…
Shelf Control #4
Shelf Control is a feature I picked up from Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies and is all about celebrating the books already on your TBR. Each Wednesday, one picks a book from one's TBR writes a post about it, usually what the book is all about, when and where you got it, what made you want to…
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"She was so utterly familiar to me, like a character from a favourite book come to life." --Eva Rice, The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets (2005)
Literary Potpourri 