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The Uncommon Reader & Agnes Grey
Three weeks ago I had eye surgery to correct my short sightedness. I knew I would be at least 2 weeks without being able to comfortably read, so I made sure I had enough audiobooks to see me through at...
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Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Enjoying the sunny Sunday afternoon In August 1974, a Frenchmen called Philippe Petit illegally stretched a cable between the top floors of the World Trade Center Towers. He then walked the distance...
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By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
This was the third book this year that I gave up on. The other two so far were: The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet by Colleen McCullough – Oh Colleen… what was going through your mind? How could you?...
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
I’ve managed once again to steer my bookclub to something already on my shelves MUAHAHAH. There was a lot of talk about this one when it first came out and people were polarized: they either love it or...
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The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O’Farrell
I feel I’ve been neglecting the blog I read at my usual pace and I also go on commenting on other people’s blogs, but I now have a five-book backlog, which never happened before. I think the blog fills...
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The Brontës by Juliet Barker (Part II)
(The Brontës & Axel the Cat, our temporary guest. Photo by Andre) As I’ve mentioned in the first part, I don’t usually write multiple posts about a single book outside read-alongs. However, there’s...
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A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks
Nothing like a good “state of the nation” story, mixed with contemporary satire, to get a bookclub going. It was difficult to know what to discuss because Faulks didn’t shy away from any modern-day...
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The Hare with the Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
(credits: Edmund de Waal) I finished this book the same way I finished In Cold Blood: thinking I had never read another non-fiction quite like it. You can read it as a family saga or an insightful...
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