The last day of July, and the last Shelf Control for the month! Shelf Control is a weekly feature hosted by Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies, and is about celebrating the books waiting to be read on your TBR piles/mountains (Mine is currently at 260 including all the e-books I have). To participate, simply pick a…
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Come come Mr. Arabin, don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine. Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers (1857) Image source: Pexels
Eleven (actually thirteen) Series I’m in the Middle of
This month, as you probably know by now, I've been reading sequels and next in series books (July plans here) so I thought I would do a post about some of the series I'm in the process of reading (and want to read more of--all the way to the end). This is of course not…
Shelf Control #54: Harding’s Luck by Edith Nesbit #TBR #ChildrensLiterature
Wednesday the 24th of July--it's Shelf Control time once again! Shelf Control is a weekly feature hosted by Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies, and is all about the books waiting to be read on your TBR piles/mountains (Mine is currently at 260 including all the e-books I have). To participate, simply pick a book from your…
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You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you're thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws. Hilary Mantel, Bring Up The Bodies (2012)…
Shelf Control #53: Death of a Pig in a Poke by Matthew Hole #Mystery
Wednesday, the 17th of July--Shelf Control time! Shelf Control is a weekly feature hosted by Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies, and is all about the books waiting to be read on your TBR piles/mountains (Mine is currently at 261 including all the e-books I've downloaded). To participate, simply pick a book from your TBR pile and…
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All gotter be equal,’ he pronounced fiercely, ‘all gotter have lots of money. All ’uman beings. That’s sense, isn’t it? Is it sense or isn’t it? Richmal Crompton, William The Fourth (1924) Image source: Pexels
John Gilpin’s Ride of a Lifetime
John GilpinRandolph Caldecott [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons 'The Diverting History of John Gilpin' is a comic ballad written by William Cowper in 1782. This is, I learnt from Wikipedia, based on a real-life wealthy draper from Cheapside in London. Cowper, it seems, heard the story from Lady Anna Austen and was so amused by…
Shelf Control #52: The Second Common Reader by Virginia Woolf
Wednesday, the 10th of July--Shelf Control day again! Shelf Control is a weekly feature hosted by Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies, and celebrates the books waiting to be read on your TBR piles/mountains (Mine is currently at 262 including all the e-books I've downloaded). To participate, simply pick a book from your TBR pile and write…
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There's an unwritten law of the universe which assures that the thing you seek will always be found in the last place you look. It applies to everything in life from lost socks to misplaced poisons. . . Alan Bradley, Speaking from among th Bones (2013) Image source: Pexels
Literary Potpourri 