I've had Covid - the omicron version I'm told. Not too bad, but on the second or third day of feeling bleugh I decided to read a Georgette Heyer novel. Better than sitting on the couch unable to concentrate on anything. I was hopeful of the same I discovered when I turned to them in lockdown last year, as I've written about in this blog here In … [Read more...] about More Georgette
Books
What I’ve Been Reading: February 2022
Leaping Into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears, Bernadette Brennan 1964-2016 (52). This is a beautiful cover image but I'm in two minds about the biography. Overall I think it is flawed because it's being written too soon, with many of the participants in the life of Gillian Mears still alive. There's an obliqueness to some of the story; … [Read more...] about What I’ve Been Reading: February 2022
Books Read January 2022
Lady’s Maid, Margaret Forster Found in our community library across the road and brought home because I’d read Fiona Sampson’s biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (see this blog) which included references to Elizabeth Wilson, Elizabeth's maid. This is a fictionalised account of Wilson's life. Beautifully written and I enjoyed the first … [Read more...] about Books Read January 2022
All Books Read in 2021
Here are all of the books I have read this year. Seventy-nine or or eighty two if I count the four Cazalet Chronicle novels separately. A big year for reading thanks to lockdowns. Books are scored out of five. My absolute favourites are bold not italicised. It's been a big year for the classics and for books about poetry or poets and novelists. Not … [Read more...] about All Books Read in 2021
Books Read November – December 2021
I have been remiss in my blog writing and am now catching up - on the very last day of 2021. Well may we be rid of this year! I'm late writing about these books because for a while I felt in a bit of a hole with my reading - okay books but not great. Then I found two that were rivetting that I loved and which took me back to some classics that … [Read more...] about Books Read November – December 2021
Books – October 2021
Two Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Fiona Sampson It took me a little while to get into this biography, but in the end I enjoyed it very much. The author is a poet so the prose is beautiful and her poet's perspective adds a lot to the discussion of both Elizabeth's own poetry and the context in which she was writing. It's a … [Read more...] about Books – October 2021