Archive for 'General Bumf' Category
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 [...]
Commonplace Quotations
In recent times, muffins have regained some popularity; in common with crumpets and pikelets, they provide a physical base and a pretext for eating melted butter. – The Pleasures of English Food by Alan Davidson
TBR Lucky Dip: June
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 [...]
Virago Book Club Event: Winifred Holtby
Last Thursday evening saw the second gathering of the Virago Book Club to discuss the second book selection, Winifred Holtby’s masterpiece South Riding. I instantly fell in love with the book when I read it back in January so I was looking forward to an evening of discussion with a group of people who all, it transpired [...]
May Summary
Another month gone by already and still I’m not caught up with my review backlog. I am, however, much closer to being up to date than I was this time last month, so perhaps June will be the month that I finally get there. May has been yet another very busy month in the non-reading [...]
TBR Lucky Dip: May
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 [...]
Commonplace Quotations
Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they’ve been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics – such as: if there are less than five million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning. So that when you look at them and think what a lazy, good-for-nothing animal, [...]
One Book, Two Book, Three Book, Four… and Five…
I don’t usually post at the weekend, but I’ve really enjoyed seeing this bookish list popping up all over my Google Reader, started by Simon from Stuck in a Book. I love a chance to be nosy and see what other people are reading and buying, so I thought I would join in too. Besides, [...]
April Summary
Well, so much for my plans to be back on track with reviews by the beginning of May: April is well and truly over and I’m further behind than ever! There seems to have been so much going on in the real world this month, including three amazing burlesque shows, two entertaining theatre trips, two [...]
TBR Lucky Dip: April
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 [...]