Elizabeth Jenkins: The Tortoise And The Hare

First impressions of Dracula…

Deidre shoved Dracula into my school bag as we were leaving. She put her finger to her lips and I knew it was one of those books. A secret.

I read in bed by torchlight. It was dull at first,

Jennifer Croft : The Extinction of Irena Rey

Eight translators make their seventh pilgrimage five miles to the Belarusian border to the home of the woman they refer to as Our Author. The translators are known by their languages: Serbian, Slovenian, English, and the narrator Spanish. Swedish is new, taking the place of Czech who, they are told, has died.

Simply Messing about in Books…summer 2024

We have spent our month by the sea, but indoors a great deal of the time, due to the highly changeable weather. Once I would have read about twenty books, but now we have little people in our family who are much more entertaining. So I will write a few notes on the six books I have read during this time, going from most enjoyable to disappointing.

Gert’s Xmas quiz

Joseph O’Neill: This Is The Life

Antti Tuomainen: The Moose Paradox

Simply Messing about in Books

Grey clouds and night rolling in at five thirty. Winter is well on the way, in fact it officially begins tomorrow, and with it a tendency to want relaxing reading. The brain is in idling mode for a while. Diversion and detectives with odd personalities are required. But this year I find myself reading books about physical activity and yearning to take up some extravagant form of dance.

My Father’s Guru : Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

 

Jeffrey Masson’s father’s guru PB Brunton, known in the family as PB, unlike Sri  Ramakrishna, was not given to ecstatic fits or animal possession. A small neat man with a pointed beard he inspired the devotion of Masson’s father Jacques and his uncle Bernard without performing any spectacular feats.

Min Jin Lee: Pachinko

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke or spirit answered to, in strongest conjuration (Charles Dickens)