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Angela Carter – Shadow Dance
Angela Carter’s debut book, Shadow Dance, is the fifth book by her that I’ve read, and it’s as bizarre as the previous three. Due to a million other things, I wasn’t able to get my thoughts out on this...
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Persephone Reading Week #2
Claire & Verity are hosting Persephone Reading Week#2 this week (yep, am a day late with my post). I missed out on this last year, but was quite looking forward to reading a couple of Persephone...
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Monica Dickens – Mariana
I bought this book back in January, simply because the blurb likened it to I Capture The Castle, and ended up “saving” it for the Persephone Reading Week (hosted by Verity and Claire). I had great...
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Stieg Larrson – The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest
This is the third and final book of the Millennium trilogy, and I’m almost annoyed that there will be no more novels of Lisbeth Salander or Mikael Blomkvist on my reading list again. The final book in...
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David Mitchell – The Thousand Autumns Of Jacob De Zoet
In terms of books being confusing and complex, this one ranks right up there. New characters being introduced every couple of pages, the story taking dramatic turns, changing from showing corruption...
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Truman Capote – Breakfast At Tiffany’s
“Charming” – That’s the first word that came to mind when I turned over the last page of this novella. I haven’t seen the Audrey Hepburn movie, so I didn’t really know much about the plot (maybe I...
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Lorrie Moore – A Gate At The Stairs
A Gate At The Stairs is one of “those” books – beautiful writing, intelligent conversation flowing through the book, a sensitive plot, and a book with great potential. Tassie is a college student in...
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Sarah Waters – Affinity
In a world where twenty-seven year old women are called “spinsters” and they aren’t allowed to study further, despite being inclined towards academia, where they still need their mother’s permission to...
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A New Home
I’ve finally moved to a self-hosted site – an idea I’ve been playing about with for ages. Please visit me here, and update your RSS feeds and bookmarks. I’m going to miss the place, but it’s time to...
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Rookie!
Argh! Just made the world’s biggest rookie mistake yesterday. Thanks Mish for pointing it out. Can you please try visiting my new site again? Hopefully, it’ll work (better) now. Thanks and apologies.
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