This weekend, I’ve read a historical crime fiction novel, Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn, and found it an unexpected pleasure. Historical fiction is a genre I usually shy away from, but I bought this cheap ages ago and picked it up from the TBR shelf on Friday night. Two chapters in and I [...]
Entries from March 2008
24 March, 2008
Book binge
Since I last posted I’ve:
- caught up with the Thursday Next series (fingers crossed there is more coming),
- confirmed my good opinion of Alice Munro with her second and third published books (Lives of girls and women and The beggar maid: stories of Flo and Rose respectively),
- succumbed to the predictable pleasures of chicklit with [...]
1 March, 2008
Dance of the happy shades by Alice Munro, 1968
Vaguely aware of Alice Munro as an acclaimed Canadian short story writer, I decided to try her first volume of short stories after seeing and being quietly impressed by the film Away from her, an adaption of her story The bear came over the mountain. (Incidentally, and before I start singing Ms. Munro’s praises, I [...]
1 March, 2008
The return of the devoted reader
Now that my internet connection has finally been restored, I can once again blog about what I’m reading, instead of boring anyone I know who’ll listen.
Over the past month, I’ve:
- enjoyed the company of a delightful Edinburgh spinster, Isabel Dalhousie, in Alexander McCall Smith’s Sunday Philosophy Club series.
- been moved by the painfully honest, tender [...]
