The Sunday Post is hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. This post is an opportunity to recap the past week on my blog and in my personal life. It’s also a chance to set up some goals for the upcoming week and talk about anything else that I want to talk about. See the rules here. Personal: I wrote… Continue reading The Sunday Post #121
I have so many books that I want to buy but I’m trying to be good and limit the number of books that I spend money on. I’ve been using my local and university libraries more often recently, alongside Project Gutenberg, but these are a few books that I really do want to buy (along… Continue reading Books On My ‘To-Buy’ List
Title: Iliad Author: Homer Translator: A. T. Murray and William F. Wyatt Publisher: Loeb Classical Library Date: 1999 (c.800 BC) Summary: The eloquent and dramatic epic poem captures the terrible anger of Achilles, “the best of the Achaeans,” over a grave insult to his personal honour and relates its tragic result—a chain of consequences that proves devastating… Continue reading Thoughts on… Iliad by Homer
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme brought to you by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was previously hosted at The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is: Extraordinary Book Titles So, these books have long titles. Some have subtitles. That’s it. 1. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne Both the book and… Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Extraordinarily Long Book Titles
The Sunday Post is hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. This post is an opportunity to recap the past week on my blog and in my personal life. It’s also a chance to set up some goals for the upcoming week and talk about anything else that I want to talk about. See the rules here. Personal: I managed… Continue reading The Sunday Post #120
This is not a list of the scariest books I’ve ever read but they are some of the weirdest books I’ve ever read and they will haunt me for eternity. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks Anyone who has read The Wasp Factory will understand how weird it is. I can’t even begin to describe how much… Continue reading Books That Will Haunt Me Forever…
Title: Candide, or Optimism Author: Voltaire Publisher: Penguin Classics Date: 2006 (1759) Summary: Brought up in the household of a German Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man whose tutor, Pangloss, has instilled in him the belief, inspired by Leibniz, that ‘all is for the best in this, the best of all possible worlds’. But when his… Continue reading Thoughts on… Candide by Voltaire
Usually, my literary locations posts about places I want to visit, or have visited, which have links to some of my favourite books and authors. I wanted to switch it up a bit so I’ve taken inspiration from my home county of Yorkshire and made a list about some of my favourite books set in… Continue reading Literary Locations: Books Set in Yorkshire
The Sunday Post is hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. This post is an opportunity to recap the past week on my blog and in my personal life. It’s also a chance to set up some goals for the upcoming week and talk about anything else that I want to talk about. See the rules here. Personal: I caught… Continue reading The Sunday Post #119
Title: The Enemy Author: Lee Child Publisher: Bantam Press Date: 2011 (2004) Summary: New Year’s Day, 1990. A soldier is found dead in a sleazy motel bed. Jack Reacher is the officer on duty. The soldier turns out to be a two-star general. The situation is bad enough, then Reacher finds the general’s wife. This stomach-churning thriller turns back the clock to… Continue reading Thoughts on… The Enemy by Lee Child
