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In my mailbox this week

By oldenglishrose - Last updated: Sunday, August 22, 2010

“In my mailbox” is a weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren in which people share the books that they have acquired that week.  They don’t have to have come arrived through the mail (or post if, like me, you’re English), and most of mine have come from second hand book stalls.  It sounds more [...]

Review: ‘Interview with the Vampire’ by Anne Rice

By oldenglishrose - Last updated: Friday, August 20, 2010

This is the book that started it all. We are in a small room with the vampire, face to face, as he speaks–as he pours out the hypnotic, shocking, moving, and erotically charged confessions of his first two hundred years as one of the living dead.  (Goodreads Summary) I read this book hoping for a [...]

To begin at the beginning

By oldenglishrose - Last updated: Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Just like most people who decide to start book blogs, I have always loved to read. I read at an unstoppable pace when I was little, continued right the way through primary school, secondary school and sixth form college before coming to a near complete stop when I started my English degree. Suddenly, I was [...]