I started this by saying The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo is the first of six books that feature Harry Hole as the main detective. However, accessing the Jo Nesbo site to get a picture of the novel, I discovered it is in fact the third of nine. Two precede it – called The Bat and The Cockroaches and there is a ninth too Phantom [...]
We’ve been a bit tardy in the bloggers book club later, none of us managed to read Dracula by Bram Stoker last month! ?Life seems to get busier instead of quieter 🙂
This month’s choice was One Day by David Nicholla. I’m always a little sceptical of books that have numerous quotes from [...]
I love reading books and while my children don’t tend to curl up with books like I used to for hours on end (although Will loved reading The Secret Seven series by Enid Blyton over the winter), they do enjoy being read to. ?When Will was younger, he had his 3 favourite books that had to be read every night – it got to the stage we knew them by heart. ?Sometimes one would ask for a story and as [...]
Enter a vanished world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren’t trusted not to steal the silver…….
That’s what we read ?on the back cover of The Help by Kathryn Stockett and that theme runs throughout the whole book as we read about white women who are trying to save face with their friends by trying to afford a black maid, trying to keep up with the [...]
I was really looking forward to reading Caitlin Moran’s book, How To Be ?a Woman. I hadn’t read any reviews of it but judging by the occasional tweet, I guessed it was a humourous version of feminism through the ages and her own take on modern feminism.
It has been described as witty and humourous. I have to admit that I haven’t finished it yet (which says a lot in itself!), [...]
