Claire King's second novel, EVERYTHING LOVE IS, is out this week, and I recommend it.
Category: Reads and reviews
Summer updates and two summer reads
It's been a horrible year but hey, it's summer and that means READING. Plus I love Lari Don's new book.
Reading The Hobbit aloud to children
'Is it a pill you take before you get married?'
And so I read SKELLIG
Not just for children.
Children’s books — my 2016 reading list
This year, I'm going to read Skellig and about a hundred others. Watch this space.
GO SET A WATCHMAN by Harper Lee — erm, is it supposed to look like that?
Oops.
Books for children — which titles would you buy?
Writing Short Stories (nice surprises and new starts)
Love this.
Does anyone know where I can find the anchoress story, please?
A few years ago, I read a story about an anchoress.
Review: A Girl is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
I just read A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride.
#bookadayuk — June 2014
Books, every day.
Heads up on flash fiction
Yesterday was International Flash Fiction Day — an incredible global outpouring of tiny pieces of fiction, including Flash Mob and National Flash Fiction Day, which sparked the Scraps anthology and the incredible Flash Flood. There’s always a lot of debate about flash fiction; “what is Flash?” and all that. A lot of definitions are longer than …
A most excellent book dedication
I have been sorting through our book archives, and finding pearls.
Being compar’d
Sixty or seventy years after she absorbed Macbeth, I did the same, and we underlined the same words.
On Goodreads
I’ve joined Goodreads — I’m here (do get in touch!), and I’ll try to hook up to my reviews when I post them. I’ve always felt a bit shy about reviewing — a critical review should explore the strengths and weaknesses in a book and I never feel in the mood to criticise; so much effort …