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• Conversations with Friends (2017) by Sally Rooney

  

  I'm probably the last book blogger (at least in the UK, who likes this sort of thing, etc...) to read this book. The hype around Sally Rooney has been quite... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Yearbook (2021) by Seth Rogen

  

  I read Yearbook way back in May, but because of life I am only now getting around to writing about it. I also read it in about two days - partly because it's... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Island (1959) by Ana María Matute

  

  Getting ready to write this post, I realised it's been three months since I posted on here. I honestly didn't realise that much time had passed. That is this... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Cardiff, by the Sea by Joyce Carol Oates (2020)

  

  This book of four novellas is about women, about what it is like to be a woman, though sometimes through extreme examples. It is not always a pleasant book.... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Montessori Toddler: A Parent’s Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible...

  

  I realise that this book is a bit of a departure from the sort of thing reviewed in my last few posts (which I realise were months ago, hello 2021), but this... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier (1951)

  

  2003 Virago paperback I first read this in 2014, which seems like a lifetime ago, and decided to re-read it earlier this year when I was fed up with everything ... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity by...

  

  image: goodreads.com This is a book about many things. Ostensibly you could say that East West Street is about a lawyer and historian, Phillippe Sands, explorin... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• House of Glass by Hadley Freeman (2020)

  

  Let me preface this review by saying that I have not written a book review, or any blog post, for months now so please bear with me... in June I went back to... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron...

  

  I honestly don't know why it's taken me so long to read any of Nora Ephron's books. I adore her movies, particularly When Harry Met Sally, and I'd always heard... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski, Tr. Danusia Stok (1993, 2007)

  

  I have not written a book review in quite a while. My last one was Stet by Diana Athill in July 2019. A month later I had my baby and though I tried to read... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Life Update! Sept 2019

  Hello readers! As you may have noticed I have been completely absent from the blog, Twitter, and Instagram for a little while - and this is because my baby was... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Stet: An Editor’s Life by Diana Athill (2000)

  

  For whatever reason this book had been sitting on my shelves since at least January, as I received it as a Christmas/birthday present (they are only ten days... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Baby and Birth Books – My Reading So Far

  

  I am now 34 weeks pregnant and while talking to friends and relatives with children about pregnancy and birth has been great, along with information from the... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Tangerine by Christine Mangan (2018)

  

  Tangerine is one of those novels that got quite a lot of hype when it first came out, and again when it was released in paperback. This usually means that I... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Catching up on Reviews…

  

  I don't often do multiple reviews in one post, but, as I mentioned here, I am a bit behind with reviews, including a couple of books I read several months ago,... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams (2018)

  I think I was initially drawn to this book because of the William Morrow hardback cover on GoodReads - it makes look like a glamorous and mysterious society... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• An Update – May 2019

  Hello dear readers! As I mentioned in my first post of the year, I'm pregnant and this is taking up pretty much all of my time and energy at the moment, so... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• No Place to Lay One’s Head by Françoise Frenkel (1945), Trans. Stephanie Smee

  I came across Bookish Beck's review of No Place to Lay One's Head last month and knew I just had to read it. It is the memoir of Françoise Frenkel, a Jewish... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor (2011)

  She-Wolves was one of those books that I had heard about for ages, and kept meaning to read, but for some reason never got around to - laziness, too many other... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Back Again for 2019!

  Hello dear readers! As you may have noticed, I have been very quiet on here recently, but I am glad to say that I am now back for 2019. My last posts in Novembe... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE