When I have nothing to do (and sometimes also when I have plenty to do, and am not doing any of it :P, such as now), I look a lot at the stats on my blog; how many views I've got, which posts readers and fellow-bloggers seem to like most, the countries from which people…
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Better to be a laughing-stock than lose the fort for fear of being one.Rosemary Sutcliff, The Eagle of the Ninth (1954) Image source: Pexels
Shelf Control #96: Salem Chapel by Margaret Oliphant #Classics
Wednesday, the 24th of June, and 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…
Book Review: Lucia’s Progress by E.F. Benson
Lucia’s Progress is book 5 in Benson’s Mapp and Lucia series, telling of the further adventures of Emmeline Lucas, ‘Lucia’, as she pits her wits against her arch-rival Elizabeth Mapp-Flint (now married to major Benjy) to be ‘queen’ of Tilling. As this instalment opens, Lucia is about to turn fifty and realises that while she…
Bookquotes: Quotes from Books (114)
See now, for a good blade, one that will not betray the man in battle, rods of hard and soft iron must be heated and braided together. Then is the blade folded over and hammered flat again, and maybe yet again, many times for the finest blades ... So the hard and soft iron are…
Not Just Anne of Green Gables: Some L.M. Montgomery Favourites
L.M. Montgomery or Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1952) was a Canadian author, best known for Anne of Green Gables, her 1908 book about a little red-headed orphan girl who arrives by mistake at the home of Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, siblings running a farm who had wanted to adopt a boy. But before long, she wins…
Shelf Control #95: Sita: An Illustrated Retelling of the Ramayana by Devdutt Pattanaik #TBR
Wednesday, the 17th of June, and 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…
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And it came to Marcus suddenly that slaves very seldom whistled. They might sing, if they felt like it or if the rhythm helped their work, but whistling was in some way different; it took a free man to make the sort of noise Esca was making.Rosemary Sutcliff, The Eagle of the Ninth (1954) Image…
Book Review: The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie #BritishCrimeClassicsChallenge
Still on my Agatha Christie revisiting spree, and this time, like The Mystery of the Blue Train which I read last, I picked one that I didn’t remember much of from previous reads. The Man in the Brown Suit (1924) does have a mystery element and clues thrown in as AC usually does, but essentially,…
Shelf Control #94: A House on the Rhine by Frances Faviell
Wednesday, the 10th of June--Shelf Control time 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. It appears every Wednesday. To participate, simply pick a book from your TBR pile, and write a post about it--what its about,…
Literary Potpourri 