Posted in Fiction - Light, Recommended on Jan 19th, 2011
This month we planned to read Ulysses but halfway through the month we revolted and chose to read Below the Styx instead. Here is the description from theĀ publisher… Martin Frobisher has been beating close family members about the head with an epergne. Frobisher, successful publisher and community leader, is in the City Remand Centre, [...]
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Posted in Fiction - Light, Recommended on Jan 13th, 2011
This novel is set during World War Two and it follows the adventures of a ‘lady’ trying to do the house work herself. She tries to maintain the same standard (to please her husband) as when she had two maids – there is many a comic mishap. Like when she is trying to set the [...]
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Posted in Miscellaneous on Jan 1st, 2011
I read 37 books for this blog last year (I read other books for JaneAustenReviews.com) andĀ I upset one author (check out the comments). So a good reading year. My three favourite reads were: Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott The Legacy by Kristen Tranter Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey. My least favourite book [...]
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