Desperate Reader

Life has somewhat got in the way again with an exciting array of crises and much complaining about the damned humidity here in Leicestershir...

I bought this cookbook when I was in Edinburgh back in May, it looks beautiful and it passed the flick test (where the first few recipes you...

I have a bit of a mystery on my hands tonight. I got Forgotten Churches a month or two back, it's a charming book (with one really annoy...

When I first saw this in Hardback last year my initial reaction was that they'd made a lot of book out of relatively few words. I'd ...

It's coming up for the second anniversary since I lost a very dear friend to cancer, she's a constant gap in my life and since she...

The current phase of moving things around and making space is coming to an end - there will be another big push later this summer, but right...

After nearly three years of marriage, my husband is finally moving in with me. We've sold his house and are trying to breathe in enough ...

I've been on holiday for a week and struggled to read much while I was away. That turned out to be partly because the prescription for m...

I seem to be in a fantasy sort of mood at the moment, maybe because I've had a run of pretty decent luck with fantasy novels that have b...

 I've not given up on this little bit of the internet, but life does seem to have other plans for my time right now. Bear with. I read T...