Queen Lucia, the first of Edward Frederic Benson’s Mapp and Lucia books, turns a 100 this year, and so I thought I should revisit. The stories centre around Emmeline Lucas (‘Lucia’) and Miss Elizabeth Mapp who battle for social supremacy in the village of Tilling (based on Rye where Benson himself lived). The first book,…
Shelf Control #92: The Case of the Late Pig by Margery Allingham #GoldenAge #Mystery #TBR
Wednesday, the 27th of May--time for Shelf Control once 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. To participate, all you do is pick a book from your TBR pile, and write a post about it--what its about,…
Squares, Bears, and Some Gentle Fun #Poetry #AAMilne
Bears--cute teddy bears to scary grizzlies--often make an appearance in children's stories--from Goldilocks who came upon the three bears' house in the forest (subject of a topsy turvy version by Roald Dahl) to Baloo in the Jungle Book, to Winnie-the-Pooh, and their relationship with 'literary children' has been described as rather 'ambivalent'.* Some are friendly…
At Bertram’s Hotel: Some Tidbits
Lately, I have been re-reading Agatha Christie mysteries, which are comfortable cosies always fun to come back to when when is not in the mood for anything else. The latest in the list is not a Poirot like the last couple, but Miss Marple, At Bertram's Hotel, which was a 'buddy read' with Rekha from…
Shelf Control#91: The Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch
Wednesday, the 20th of May--time once again for Shelf Control! 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. To participate, all you do is pick a book from your TBR pile, and write a post about it--what its about,…
Bookquotes: Quotes from Books (109)
But words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right (1869) Image source: Pexels
Book Review: Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie #BritishCrimeClassicsChallenge
The twenty-fourth Poirot mystery—I’ve been randomly reading books from my Agatha Christie shelf lately. Evil Under the Sun (1940) is set on a beach resort, the Jolly Roger Hotel, run by one Mrs Castle, and has as many Goodreads reviewers have commented, appeared in a short story form prior to this—that was probably a prototype,…
Book Review: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
This was a revisit, read in serial with the Victorians group on Goodreads. North and South (1854–55) is Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–65)’s fourth novel, and one of her best known ones, also adapted for TV three times, most recently a BBC series in 2004. As the story opens, eighteen-year-old Margaret Hale who has been brought up…
Shelf Control #90: Holiday House by Enid Blyton #TBR #Mystery #Children’sLiterature
Wednesday, the 13th of May--time once again for Shelf Control! 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. To participate, all you do is pick a book from your TBR pile, and write a post about it--what its about,…
Book Review: Dead Man’s Folly by Agatha Christie #BritishCrimeClassicsChallenge
In this, the thirty-third Poirot mystery, Poirot receives a request for help from mystery-writer Ariadne Oliver. Mrs Oliver has been down at Nasse House, Nassecombe, Devon, where a village fête is to be held and one attraction is a ‘murder hunt’ on the lines of a treasure hunt which she is in charge of organising.…
Literary Potpourri 