Desperate Reader

After what feels like an eternity but has in fact only been 4 months it's time for me to go on holiday again. The Scottish Borders are c...

It had occurred to me to save this book as a Christmas eve treat but I've never been very good at waiting for treats so I just read it...

Some books (like this one) finish far to soon. I'm having a definite pre Christmas wobble (will I have the energy, patience, and enough ...

My early forays into Thirkell left me with an over all impression that she wrote pleasant, easy, generally amusing books that were as good ...

It's been a very busy week, so much so that I'm currently slumped on the sofa fighting to stay conscious - the only thing energisin...

I read this one well before Christmas but have been procrastinating over writing about it - amongst all the delights of reading older ficti...

The shine has worn off Christmas a bit for me now (I've had two months of it already and the milk of superhuman patience is drying up...

I find the end of summer beginning of autumn a deeply depressing time of year, no season of mists and mellow fruitfulness for me, instea...