Over the past year or so, I've noticed a new trend. Bloggers I follow (often with their own custom built WordPress blogs) have been aba...

Here is the fourth instalment of a five part series about a family of girls which has been likened to modern classics. This follows  The Pen...

I'm always on a quest to revisit retro books from my youth and work my way through books I have on hand on my physical piles. This one t...

Summary:  Home parallels the story told in Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead. It is a moving and healing book about families, fa...

Summary: Our indomitable Miss Marple turns ghost hunter and uncovers shocking evidence of a very old crime. Soon after Gwenda moved into her...

MY THOUGHTS: My daughter gave me this book last Christmas, and my first reaction when I saw the cover was, 'Haha, I had no idea Bear Gry...

Hooray, this is the wrap-up I've longed to write for years, and it's taken almost a decade to get here! At last I've completed e...