Reviews of Books
Posted in Recommended, Serious on Jun 29th, 2010
I picked up a copy of this novel from a second-hand book store while on holiday. Here’s the blurb Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent, sets out from Cambridge full of hopes to become a writer. But when his stories are not [...]
Posted in Memoir on Jun 21st, 2010
I read about this book on another blog ( http://dovegreyreader.typepad.com/dovegreyreader_scribbles/2010/03/the-girl-on-the-wall-0ne-lifes-rich-tapestry-jean-baggott.html) and thought it sounded interesting. It’s fascintating for some many different reasons; the social history, the embroidery skills, etc. Here’s the blurb … Jean Baggott is ‘the girl on the wall’ – a 1948 photograph taken of her when she was eleven – whose [...]