A Changing Life

I've posted about books so many times before.  I can't avoid it - they are part of my life and a large part.  I've been trying h...

I can't imagine life without easy access to books, and libraries have always been part of my life, as a child, as a student, and as a pa...

I have an Amazon token that needs to be used up and I can't think what to buy. It was a gift, so I'd like something "lasting...

By coincidence I was in Gloucester over the weekend, just returning today, Beatrix Potter's birthday. I particularly wanted to see the c...

Two stories for World Book Day. Doris Lessing Last December, Doris Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In her acceptance s...

Thanks to a fall which resulted in a bruised foot , I haven't had a chance to get out to take pictures of what I had intended - red ber...

It's the title of a book by Pierre Bayard, a professor of French Literature in Paris, who suggests that the two most common forms of rea...

Three weeks ago I went to a "Meet the Author" held nearby. The author in question was Alexander McCall Smith , author of The No 1 ...

Late again - the story of my life. Or early, I suppose I could be early, depending on your point of view. I've been tagged by Françoise ...

One of the best books I have read in a long time – and I’m offering it to one lucky person in a lottery draw! Written in 1958, it tells the ...

Some friends of ours have recently moved house and found a box of old English books in their cellar. Knowing I can't say no to a book, t...

I've had the BookAid logo in my sidebar for a long time now. BookAid promotes literacy in developing countries by creating reading and ...

On our arrival in the hotel in Amsterdam, I found this little book on the bedside table. It would appear that the chain of hotels, NH Hotel...

I thought about a lot of different types of rows: rows of books, rows of vegetables or other crops, but in the end as I was sorting through ...

I picked this one up because I rather like the little boy on the front, and also because someone told me it was her favourite book. It’s the...

My reading has become a lot slower recently, ever since I decided it would be good for me if every alternate book was in French. By reading ...

I’m not quite sure when I became aware of Amélie Nothomb. I’ve noticed her books for sale for several years, and I knew they weren’t new bec...

Please remind me not to read any more non-fiction books, at least not random, spur of the moment, purchases. I can read all sorts of fiction...

It isn ’t quite the book I had expected, but I did enjoy it all the same. I understand it’s a partly autobiographical novel as Simi Bedfor...

"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library." -Jorge Luis Borges Just one section of one bookshelf, and some ...