Desperate Reader

One good thing about living in a flat is the absence of small children demanding money and sweets with menaces - Halloween is long past bein...

I love the title of this book so much that even without the Bloomsbury Group endorsement I would probably have felt the need to buy it had I...

I’ve had visitors this week (and work) with the result that by Wednesday night I’m utterly exhausted and haven’t read anything. The visitors...

More lovely parcels have been coming my way – birthday and Christmas are frankly going to be a disappointment after this and once more these...

Thanks to Verity I now know its national baking week – an idea I can get right behind, although I don’t think some banners would have gone ...

My job is changing – wine selling activities are moving across town into a big new shiny shop which doesn’t leak and smells of paint. It’s a...

After ‘ The Warden’ I really wanted to get stuck straight into ‘ Barchester Towers’ but have so far resisted partly to give me the time to...

I’m very pleased to announce that it’s finally happened – I’ve fallen in love with Trollope. I’ve stopped being intimidated by the length of...

(Vegetarians should probably look away now) Great excitement here on Monday night – the blonde has made a new friend and he has seemingly u...

This book turned up on my amazon recommends list a few days after my sister and I came into possession of a handful of okimono and netsuke t...