It is perhaps a little early to think of spring-cleaning: we’re still in the depths of winter, though the lightening evenings are bringing a hint of optimism to this largely sofa-bound person. But, this year, M and I are doing a massive spring-clean, which involves new furniture and a complete reorganisation of most rooms in… Continue reading The Start of the Spring-Clean
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Remembering Reads: The One Hundred and One Dalmations
One of the more dangerous side-effects of having to organise or pack away books is rediscovering books you’d forgotten you had or which you’d misplaced and hadn’t been able to find, and starting a reread. I can’t remember why now, but a little while ago I was trying to find Dodie Smith’s The One Hundred… Continue reading Remembering Reads: The One Hundred and One Dalmations
Recently Read: The Failed Attempts
It wasn’t a particularly good month for reading last month. Not for new reads, at any rate. I attempted two new reads, but neither lasted very long, and I retreated to the safety and comfort of Heyer and whizzed through nine or ten of her novels, starting with The Talisman Ring and ending with The… Continue reading Recently Read: The Failed Attempts
Remembering Reads: Sherlock Holmes
I’ve spent a lot of time recently going through my books. I’d started with the TBR pile, and then moved on, reorganising. I ended up with a pile to donate: books I hadn’t read in the, sometimes many, years I’d owned them, and clearly never would; and books which I’d read but was so far… Continue reading Remembering Reads: Sherlock Holmes
Recently Read: Reducing the TBR Pile
It’s been a good month for the charity shops. For donations of books at any rate. I whittled my shelves here, and then, to my mother’s relief and delight, had a go at the ones in my childhood bedroom. I managed to reduce the collection at home-home down by two bookcases. I hadn’t thought I… Continue reading Recently Read: Reducing the TBR Pile
Remembering Reads
Every so often, I think I ought to write more book reviews. I like books and reading and finding more titles to add to the list or pile for future reading. It follows, therefore, that I should be writing more about them. About the things I read, the ones I enjoy reading and the ones… Continue reading Remembering Reads
Recently Read: Returning to Corfu
At the beginning of this year, I made the decision that I would read my way through the TBR pile, adding new titles only to the List. This would be The Year. Obviously, I failed with the only adding to the list aspect when I bought Gerald Durrell’s Corfu Trilogy, and this last month saw… Continue reading Recently Read: Returning to Corfu
Recently Read: Tears and Laughter
I tripped up a bit during March, with the whole no-buying-more-books thing. First there was a dragon book – The Flight of Dragons by Peter Dickinson – then there was The Corfu Trilogy by Gerald Durrell (but I’m only counting it as one book because it’s an all-in-one copy). M and I tried ITV’s The… Continue reading Recently Read: Tears and Laughter
Recently Read: Regrets and Myths
I’m quite pleased with my reading this month, though I only read two of the three on my list. No, what I’m pleased about is that I didn’t add any more to the pile, or read ones which weren’t on the list. That is, I feel, quite an achievement. Perhaps I was helped by the… Continue reading Recently Read: Regrets and Myths
Recently Read: The Last Austen
January is generally my quietest month for reading and crafting. It’s the recovering from Christmas and setting myself up for the following year. Making plans, getting organised, that sort of thing. I had given myself a list of titles from my TBR pile to read. I read one, The Bear and the Nightingale, at the… Continue reading Recently Read: The Last Austen
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