Book Collecting – Page 2 – Pictures and Conversations

Advent Reading Challenge Day Eight

Your Dream Christmas Destination Even as I start typing I'm not sure which book I'm going to write about. What is my dream Christmas destination…

Your December TBR pile As you can see my to-be-read pile is under control. I've tried to be sensible about the books that I buy,…

At this time of year the book world is full of reading challenges for December. A number have come my way, and I've decided to…

Linda Newbery's writing career to date begins and ends with animal rights. In between is a diverse selection of topics, themes and genres for a…

Well, we're back to career novels with no plot here. The blurb doesn't even mention the main character or the setting. What it talks about…

Of its type this is one of the better books I've read recently. I collect career novels more for their social history than their plots…

To say that I was intrigued when I saw a copy of Two Young Missionaries by Nansi Pugh for sale is to put it mildly.…

In my less realistic and rational moments (I can't actually write and I don't own the copyright) I imagine writing a follow on novel for…

Regular readers of this blog will have been unable to avoid the revelation that my favourite mid twentieth century writer is Dorita Fairlie Bruce. I…

About fifteen years ago I went to Italy with a couple of friends for a winter week. We stayed first in Verona, a beautiful city,…