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I have the second of my comprehensive exams coming up. Although this has not resulted in reading nothing at all, it has meant that I have n...

Well, you know what I'm reading, so what else is new? Eating: The farm where we get our vegetables has given us fresh beets sever...

I have heard about author Elizabeth Taylor from fellow readers for years now, but Angel is the first novel of her's I have read. Wow -...

David Miller's Today (another recommendation of John Self's ) is set around the death of the author Joseph Conrad, but it is less a...

When I finished Hilary Mantel's A Change of Climate last week, I just couldn't find fiction that would satisfy. I was more drawn t...

This this has been going around like a bad summer cold - everyone has had it: BooksPlease , Books and Bicycles , My Porch ... It’s from the...

One day when Kit was ten years old, a visitor cut her wrists in the kitchen. She was just beginning on this cold, difficult form of death w...

From Jojo Moyes, an English journalist, comes The Last Letter from Your Lover inspired, she says, by watching girls trying to interpret a t...

I'm really pleased that Thomas and Simon gave me an excuse to read another of Anita Brookner's novels. In a certain way A Closed ...

I read Eva Hoffman's thoughtful novel Appassionata while on my trip. It concerns Isabel Merton, a concert pianist, whose encounter wit...

Every so often I find it fun to dip into a the ya fantasy genre, and so Diana Wynne Jones's The Chronicles of Chrestomanci , including b...

Our stay in London included the addition of a few new goodies I thought I'd share. They were acquired at the personable Primrose Hi...

We've been back from vacation for almost a week but it has taken me until now to get back to writing. Our trip to the Dordogne, Paris, ...

We're about to head off on vacation (at last!) with, in my case, a pile of books, walking shoes, and a good appetite. I'm looking f...