Daphne, by Justine Picardie
4/5 My copy of Daphne, by Justine Picardie had been sitting on a stack of unread books for some time looking forlornly at me. ‘Why haven’t you read me yet?’ it reprimanded. ‘Why – when you love Daphne...
View ArticleMary Anne, by Daphne du Maurier – Discovering Daphne Readalong #2
4.5/5 I read Mary Anne a couple of months ago, and now sitting down to pull together my thoughts, my enthusiasm for this book hasn’t dampened. I was delighted by Mary Anne. I was surprised, because...
View ArticleThe House on the Strand, by Daphne du Maurier – Discovering Daphne Readalong #3
3.5/5 “Curiouser and curiouser”, said Alice famously, after descending the rabbit hole to Wonderland and drinking a mysterious draught from a flask. Unlike Alice, whose body becomes etiolated, in The...
View ArticleRebecca, by Daphne du Maurier – Discovering Daphne readalong #5
5/5 I’ve been pretty busy lately and left my reading of the fifth Discovering Daphne choice rather late, but I’m rather glad now that I did as my tardiness resulted in me sitting down to read it in a...
View ArticleDon’t Look Now and Other Stories – Discovering Daphne Readalong #4
4/5 Thanks to Simon lending me his library copy of Don’t Look Now and Other Stories on Monday (after I was able to hunt out my own last weekend), I am able to conclude Discovering Daphne! This copy...
View ArticleReading notes 2 – Feat. Edmund de Waal, Kazuro Ishiguro and Juli Zeh
A little while ago I did this post of mini reviews which I found rather a good way of catching up with myself. Sometimes a girl is rushing around so much she realises she’s read lots of books that she...
View ArticleThe Red Tent, by Anita Diamant
4/5 In The Red Tent, Anita Diamant takes a fleeting moment in the Old Testament of the Bible and transforms it into an epic narrative. Dinah is a biblical character around which a violent set of events...
View ArticleAnne Frank – Diary of a Young Girl
5/5 At almost twice the age Anne was when she write the last lines in her famous diary, I think back and try to remember back to my own inner-monologue as a teenager. On one hand I wonder at her...
View ArticleAnd here are the books I read while I was away…
Over the past few months I guess I maybe haven’t read as much as I usually would. I’m not sure if that was just being very busy doing other things, or a bit of reading-fatigue. I do think I felt less …...
View ArticleSweet Tooth, by Ian McEwan
4/5 If you are a fan of Ian McEwan’s writing then Sweet Tooth shouldn’t disappoint. Set in the early 1970s in the shadow of the Cold War and IRA violence, the story follows Sylvia Frome, an attractive...
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