Desperate Reader

I'm off to the North for a couple of weeks (by which time I sincerely hope my post has sorted itself out) but until then it'll be ...

the good Is the current status of my cheque book for the account with the money to pay my flats service charge in it. As far as I can...

A few days ago there was a discussion in my on line reading group about how we responded to people who slated books we loved (and rather w...

Posts have been few and far between of late (and with a holiday looming that’s going to be a pattern) partly because of work hours which h...

Simon Savidge wrote a post earlier this week in response to an article in the bookseller by Scott Pack  about missed opportunities rega...

Or ‘As My Whimsy Takes Me’. Christina at Rochester Reader  has an informal Dorothy L. Sayers challenge going on which on a more albeit sub...

If anyone has wondered where I’ve been this week the answer is on a course. The advantage of working in the wine trade is that our cou...

Somehow this afternoon has turned into this evening and now tonight (I think that makes sense) and I've been remarkably productive, ...

I currently share my one bedroom flat with roughly 1600 books (I gave up counting somewhere near 1450 but that was a while ago and they ...

I have an exam coming up (I think, it’s one of several things that isn’t very clear about a course I’m going on next week concerning spir...