Archive for September, 2011
Review: ‘Song of Sorcery’ by Elizabeth Scarborough
One of the many benefits of having such a large pool of books from which to choose my reading is that it’s easy to find something that fits my mood or requirements. A while ago I needed to pick a book to read before bed and so it needed to be light in every sense [...]
Review: ‘Human Croquet’ by Kate Atkinson
The Oxfam shop in my old university town used to sell bundles of three books tied up with string for £1.99. I acquired Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson at some point in my final year as part of just such a bundle, along with Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty and A. S. Byatt’s Possession [...]
Review: ‘Elizabeth and her German Garden’ by Elizabeth von Arnim
I very rarely plan what I’m going to read ahead of time, preferring to pick books from my shelves as the mood takes me, so it’s even more surprising when literary serendipity strikes. I really enjoy suddenly discovering that the book I’m reading is set in a place that I’ve just visited, references a book [...]
Reader, I married him
After eight years of being together, two years of engagement and several incredibly stressful weeks when the church lost our paperwork and declared we couldn’t get married unless they had it (we eventually received permission from the powers that be a mere eight days before the wedding) the Old English Thorn and I finally got married [...]