Archive for July, 2011
Silent Running
My apologies for the relative silence here at Old English Rose Reads over the past few weeks. In the chaos of moving house (during which ongoing process I am coming to the realisation that I have far too many books), arranging a wedding, jumping through a succession of Catholic hoops and generally preparing for a [...]
TBR Lucky Dip: July
As I explained in my post about reading plans for the new year, each month I’m going to be using a random number generator to select a book from my TBR pile for me to read, to help me read more widely from my shelves. This month, the deities of www.random.org have ordained that I should [...]
Review: ‘Ballet for Drina’ by Jean Estoril
Like a great many little girls, I took ballet lessons when I was younger. I was never particularly good at it and I stopped taking exams when they required that I start pointe work, but I really enjoyed it. As an adult, I still really enjoy ballet but, though I do take the occasional class [...]
Review: ‘Wild Swans’ by Jung Chang
When I was at secondary school we had a lovely chemistry teacher who would cunningly arrange school trips to places that she really wanted to visit herself. She organised skiing trips to Canada and America which I happily ignored, but then when I was fourteen a letter went home about a proposed trip to China. My [...]
Review: ‘The Prince of Mist’ by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Usually, I never go anywhere without a book, but on the recent bank holiday Monday I inexplicably found myself in Bournemouth with three and a half hours to kill before that evening’s Bellowhead concert and no book with which to attack them. It’s probably because I travel everywhere by train so I’m used to needing at [...]
June Summary
Every month I claim that this will be the one when I finally get up to date with reviews, but I think it’s finally time to admit that I am a very, very long way behind now. However, I’m considering this a positive thing as the time is looming near when I’m not going to [...]