Last year, for DDM reading week with Heavenali, I only had time for one short story. I chose The Birds, the first story in one of my beautiful Virago Designer Classic editions. This year I was more organised and finally finished the rest of the collection. The other stories include: Monte Verità (pp. 44-113) "They … Continue reading The Birds and Short Stories | Daphne Du Maurier #DDMreadingweek
On December the third the wind changed overnight and it was winter. Time is of the essence right now. Lots of big reading plans; not much blogging time. But I'm rather smitten with Daphne du Maurier's work and I look forward to Ali's special reading week each year to celebrate their shared birthdays. The only … Continue reading The Birds | Daphne du Maurier #GBRshortstory
This remarkable novel, first published to a chorus of acclaim in 1952, is one of the lost classics of Australian literature. Martin Boyd is a deeply humane novelist, a writer of family sagas without peer. Set in Australia and England in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, The Cardboard Crown presents an unforgettable portrait … Continue reading The Cardboard Crown | Martin Boyd #CCspin
I'm struggling to write reviews at the moment (my Covid Chronicles posts are the writing exception), but I am slowly reading through a few books. One that I've just finished is Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym. It was her very first book published in 1950. I was curious to see what I had to … Continue reading Excellent Women | Barbara Pym #ComfortRead
Usually, I prefer to read the book before I see the movie, but in this case, our long hot summer got the better of my good intentions.I recently escaped the heat by watching Brooklyn and Carol back to back in our local cinema.Both movies were fabulous for very different reasons and I came away determined to … Continue reading Carol by Patricia Highsmith
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