June in Review
With the weather ricocheting from cold-enough-for-tights at the start and close of the month to warmer-than-it-was-while-I-was-in-Australia by the middle, June is a hard month to categorise. I’ve been ambling about […]
Month: June 2017
Thursday Picture – It’s Raining Books
via Cheshire Library
Review: The Devil in the Marshalsea, Antonia Hodgson
The Marshalsea for most of us is synonymous with Dickens, Little Dorrit and the impossible position of debtors in Victorian Britain. However, the prison which so traumatised Charles Dickens was in […]
Top Ten Library Books I Couldn’t Leave Behind
Recently, I have been rebelling against the Rules. Specifically, the rules of Book Buying. Since early childhood, there was a strict embargo on me owning books that were pre-read. In […]
Review: Heartburn, Nora Ephron
I have always liked Nora Ephron but, like many people, I tended to know her more for her one-liners rather than for having actually read anything by her. Heartburn was […]
Saturday Poem – The British
This time last year, I was hoping that the polls would go the other way. Alas. And a year on we seem no less divided. Still, I have always enjoyed […]