There is nothing more satisfying than reading a book while sipping a hot cup of tea.
People are often dismissive of librarians and libraries - as if the words are synonymous with boredom or timidity. But isn't that where the best stories are kept? Hidden away on the library bookshelves, lost and forgotten, waiting, waiting, until someone like me comes along, and wants to borrow them. In her fifties and about … Continue reading #DDM ReadingWeeK: Daphne by Justine Picardie (2008)
I had so much fun doing the #1920 Club (read two books that had been on my wishlist for a long time and discovered Marie Belloc Lowndes' fantastic Christmas novel, From Out the Vasty Deep) that I am taking part in another reading event, scheduled for next week. The Daphne du Maurier reading week is … Continue reading Reading Event: Daphne du Maurier Reading Week
A middle-aged Honor Harris is visited by two young men of her acquaintance who appraise her of various happenings around the world even as the Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell, rules over England. Then one of them asks about the mysterious disappearance of Dick Grenvile and this question sets Honor reminiscencing about the past.I had no … Continue reading Forgotten Book: The King’s General by Daphne du Maurier
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