Classic Club: Favourite opening sentence
You open a book for the first time and read the first few sentences. You might be confronted with a ‘brick through the wall’ type of opening much favoured by writers of crime and adventure stories –...
View ArticleTo read or to re-read?
There was a column published recently by Stuart Kelly in the Guardian newspaper here in the UK, that got me thinking about my reading habits. More particularly it got me thinking about my re-reading...
View ArticleThe ideal travelling companion?
Suitcase is packed. Passport and currency checked and rechecked. Now all that remains is to decide what book will accompany me on my work trip to Michigan later today. It’s even more difficult a...
View Article10 novels I wrestled with .. and sometimes failed
The topic for this week’ s Top Ten Tuesday meme is all about books that were a struggle to get through. Lets start with two that were such a struggle I never made it to the final page. They were both...
View ArticleWWWednesday 25 April 2018
WWWednesday is hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words which involves just three questions What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read...
View ArticleWWWednesday 2 May 2018
WWWednesday is hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words which involves just three questions What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read...
View ArticleWWWednesday 22 August 2018
The weeks certainly go fast don’t they? I can’t believe Wednesday has come around again so its time for another WWWednesday post. WWWednesday is hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words and...
View ArticleWWWednesday 4 September 2018
It’s time for another update using the WWWednesday formula created by Sam at Taking on a World of Words What are you currently reading? The Girl in the Red Coat is the debut novel by Kate Hamer....
View ArticleWWWednesday: What Are You Reading? 24 October 2018
It’s a while since I did this meme which involves answering three questions set by Sam at Taking on a World of Words What are you currently reading? During a recent bout of “squaring away”...
View ArticleBookends #13: April 2019
This week’s Bookends features an article about Faber and Faber as they mark their 90th anniversary, a blog post about reading those books that regularly appear in those “100 books you must read” kind...
View ArticleReader preference – Single or multiple narrators?
This week’s Bookends features a new novel from an author in Wales, an article and podcast about narrative voices and an article about the value of creative writing courses. Book: Crushed by Kate Hamer...
View ArticleThe Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope —Curtain Falls On Old Friends
It took Anthony Trollope almost fourteen years to write The Chronicles of Barsetshire. It’s taken me about eighteen to read the 3469 pages that make up his series of six books set in the fictional...
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