And so goes yet another month--March 2023 is coming to a close (already?) and for a change, I'm at my wrap up post at the right time (well, the ideal time any way; any time can be right)! March for me in reading terms was also mixed like February with not much reading time initially…
Shelf Control #221: Death on the Riviera by John Bude
Wednesday, the 29th of March, and time for Shelf Control once again! Shelf Control is a weekly feature created by Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies, and celebrates the books waiting to be read on your TBR piles/mountains. Since early January 2023, Shelf Control has moved base here to Literary Potpourri. To participate, all you do is…
Book Review: Sinister Spring: Murder and Mystery from the Queen of Crime (2023) by Agatha Christie
My thanks to Harper Collins UK for a review copy of this book via NetGalley. Sinister Spring: Murder and Mystery from the Queen of Crime (2023) is another season themed collection of (reprinted) short stories from Christie’s pen. Like a previous volume of these I read Midsummer Mysteries (2021), we have in this collection 12…
Book Review: Felix Holt: The Radical (1866) by George Eliot
A novel of society, politics and elections; of people and relationships; of principles and the lack of them; of secrets; and of women’s role and place in society and family, among others, Felix Holt: The Radical (1866) was George Eliot’s fifth published novel. Set in a small (fictional) industrial town in the midlands, Treby Magna,…
Book Review: Ada Lovelace: The World’s First Computer Programmer (2023) by Beverley Adams
My thanks to Pen & Sword for a review copy of this book via NetGalley. I first heard or rather read Ada Lovelace’s name way back in class V, where our introductory textbook on computers talked of Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine (with I think a diagram of the machine) and of Lady Ada Lovelace who…
Shelf Control #220: Small is Beautiful by E. F. Schumacher
Wednesday, the 22nd of March, and time for Shelf Control once again! Shelf Control is a weekly feature created by Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies, and celebrates the books waiting to be read on your TBR piles/mountains. Since early January 2023, Shelf Control has moved base here to Literary Potpourri. To participate, all you do is…
Book Review: How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn #Dewithon23
Richard Llewellyn’s classic, How Green Was My Valley (1939) is a multi- layered book—a coming of age tale, a story of family and relationships, of life in a small mining town in Southern Wales, of simpler times gone by, of the unions, the conditions in which miners lived and worked, of tensions between the Welsh…
Book Review: The Guardian of Whispers (2023) by B. E. Padgett
My thanks to Booktasters for a review copy of this book. The first of a series of children’s/middle-grade fantasy books, the Guardian of Whispers by B. E. Padgett might have hints of Harry Potter but still makes for a very creative and enjoyable adventure. We are introduced to the Reed family, five children—Eugene, the twins…
Book Review: Sugar and Slate (2002) by Charlotte Williams #Dewithon23
My thanks to Parthian Books for a review copy of this book via NetGalley. Sugar and Slate, originally published in 2002, and now being republished by Parthian Books is academic and author Charlotte Williams’ memoir exploring her search for identity, belonging and home. Born to a White, Welsh mother, and Black Guyanese father, her mixed…
Shelf Control #219: The Final Adventures of Professor Shonku by Satyajit Ray
Wednesday, the 15th of March, and time for Shelf Control once again! Shelf Control is a weekly feature created by Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies, and celebrates the books waiting to be read on your TBR piles/mountains. Since early January 2023, Shelf Control has moved base here to Literary Potpourri. To participate, all you do is…
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