This time last year I took part in the Stainless Steel Droppings Once Upon A Time Reading Challenge Quest the Third; you read one fantasy, one folklore, one fairy tale, and one mythology, and in June either read or watch A Midsummer Night's Dream. I had great fun completing this challenge, the results were fairly … Continue reading Once Upon A Time Reading Challenge 2011
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World Book Night – The Books!
BOOKS! BOOKS AND BOOZE! FREE BOOKS AND BOOZE!! In fact, if you take into account that glass of wine @Decknologist gave me, it was actually FREE BOOKS AND FREE BOOZE What a fantastic night! I know that BOOKELF has posted about the In's and Outs of the event, so I'll try to avoid being too … Continue reading World Book Night – The Books!
Helen Mort
I know poems are more N's thing, but I saw Helen reading her poetry last night at Word Life and thought they were beautiful, so wanted to share one with you, I hope you don't mind. If you click on the title it takes you to an amazon (sorry) link to the publication of her's. … Continue reading Helen Mort
The Golden Notebook
So just over a week ago I started reading Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, one I have been meaning to read for a good two years. I *had* to write down what I feel about it, though you have to remember that I've had a *very* stressful week! I am going to get a hell … Continue reading The Golden Notebook
World Book Night at Arcadia
I woke up on Saturday with a horrible horrible hangover, fresh from a dream where we had set World Book Night up on trestle tables on Otley Road, nobody had come and everything was covered in sand... ...so its fair to say I was sliiiiiightly nervous when it came to 6.30 that evening. The lovely … Continue reading World Book Night at Arcadia
Book Club the Bigger! Meeting the first!
Venue: Arcadia Bar Date: 30th January 2011 Time: 5pm - 7pm Agreed on: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Discussed: The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey Right, despite this being the first time we had all met up, we wasted no time in getting started, barely waiting for … Continue reading Book Club the Bigger! Meeting the first!
World Book Night
This is a bit of Shameless self promotion on my part, but I would like to warmly invite anyone who lives in Leeds (and is over 18) to come to the Travelling Suitcase Library's World Book Night Event. We will be in Arcadia Ale and Wine Bar, in Headingley, from 7 pm. I will be … Continue reading World Book Night
If I have to leave – D.E. Barrell
Today, I have mostly been trying to remember poetry that I last read in 1998, for my O Levels. Thanks to facebook, I now know that the book we studied was Revival (which I am now scouring the internet for), and have managed to track down my personal favourite from the set, and one that … Continue reading If I have to leave – D.E. Barrell
If you like it then you should have put a ring on it…
Its been a long time since I wanted to throw a book accross the room, yet I very nearly did on more that one occasion reading The Thorn Birds, by Colleen McCullough. I chose this book as it is supposedly a modern classic, and was reprinted by Virago Books in 2007 for its thirtieth anniversary … Continue reading If you like it then you should have put a ring on it…
Podcast the second – A Valentines Day Special
* * *PODCAST* * * Valentines Day Podcast Special 'White Linen Shirts a-Plenty' In this exciting chapter (see what I did there?), we discuss Falling for a Dancer by Deirdre Purcell The BBC 1998 series of Falling for a Dancer ***LANGUAGE WARNING *** We do better than last time, but once again, at a particular … Continue reading Podcast the second – A Valentines Day Special
