The Book Trunk

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  • Curing the Blues with Henrietta and Homemade Cake

    Right, I know it’s only March, but ‘Henrietta’s War, News From The Home Front 1939-1942’, by Joyce Dennys will definitely be on my Books of the Year List. Like The Traveling Parnassus, or Miss Hargreaves, it is charming, delightful, and very,… Continue reading

  • Library Loot and Date Stamps

    O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!  I’ve been to the library,  where the machine chine was not dispensing receipts with the date of return (which I always lose and consequently forget when books are due back), so a real  librarian date stamped my books, as… Continue reading

  • Agitate for 12 Days, and Rest for a Week…

     The Virago edition feature a cover with the painting La Table de Fruits a l’atelier 1946 by Henri Manguin Mary Norton is most famed for her children’s stories about the Borrowers – the tiny race of people who ‘borrow’ things that we lose or discard.… Continue reading

  • A Book Like a Large, Smelly, Red Brick!

     Since I am in ‘tidying’ mode, not only do I have a list of Books To Be Read (with sub-lists for categories), I also have a list of Books I’ve Read And Not Written About, as well as a list… Continue reading

  • There Will be No More Books…!

    For various reasons I haven’t been online much for the last week, but here I am again, not exactly firing on cylinders, but reasonably bright and raring to go. I am sitting here considering the To Be Read Pile and… Continue reading