31 December 2023 or if you're writing your date American style 123123! The last day of the year and time to reflect on the year gone by, books read and not, events joined and not and various other little details. 2023 was for me overall a very good reading and blogging year, more consistent certainly…
Book Review: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) by L. Frank Baum #Ozathon24
Thanks to the #Ozathon24 hosted by Lory at Entering the Enchanted Castle, it was after years that I cracked open the covers of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), a book I enjoyed as a child (and have read several times) and the only Oz book I knew back then. Reading it I realised how…
Book Review: The Cat Outside the Window (2023) by Peter Scottsdale
My thanks to BooksGoSocial for a review copy of this book via NetGalley. A Cosy Cat Crime Caper—I knew I would love this the moment I read the name of the series, and I did. This short novel is the third ‘Cosy Cat Crime Caper’ but ok to be read as a standalone too or…
Shelf Control #260: Fancy Dress Ball by J. Jefferson Farjeon
Wednesday, the 27th of December 2023 and time for Shelf Control once again, the last one for this year, would you believe it? 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…
🎄🎄Book Review: Christmas with the Savages (1955) by Mary Clive🎄🎄(and a new favourite word)
The second set of Savages back-to-back, though not linked with the first at all, except that both books have children in them with this one focusing on them more than on the adults. But before I say anything about the book itself, I just have to say that my new favourite word (noun/adjective, whichever one…
Book Review: Young Mrs Savage (1948) by D. E. Stevenson #DeanStreetDecember
Light-hearted and enjoyable Young Mrs Savage (1948) by D. E. Stevenson is a post-war story, of family, of relationships and bonds and things that may test or tug at them, one of new beginnings and of recovery and rejuvenation. Twenty-eight-year-old Dinah Savage is the Mrs Savage of the title and we meet her living in…
Book Review: One for Each Night: The Greatest Chanukah Stories of All Time (2023) by Sholom Aleichem et al.
My thanks to New Vessel Press for a review copy of this book via Edelweiss. When I downloaded a review copy of One for Each Night: The Greatest Chanukah Stories of All Time, I did so based on cover and title and did not read the blurb, and so when I started reading, I was…
Shelf Control #259: A Vicarage Family by Noel Streatfield
Wednesday, the 20th of December 2023, 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…
Book Review: It Might Lead Anywhere (1946) by E. R. Punshon #DeanStreetDecember
With the impression that I had enjoyed my first Bobby Owen mystery Diabolic Candelabra less than I’d hoped (my very short review doesn’t mention much except the slower pacing than I’d expected), I was a little apprehensive picking up this one, but from opening page on, the humorous and wonderful writing captured my attention and…
Book Review: Lucas the Spy Cat (2022) by Samantha Shannon and illustrated by Lei Yang
My thanks to BooksGoSocial for a review copy of this book via NetGalley. Written in simple verse and with vivid and appealing artwork, Lucas the Spy Cat (2022) is a picture and activity book by Samantha Shannon and illustrated by Lei Yang. The books opens with the story of Lucas, whose human sisters are…
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