“Go back to your books, to your armchair. Plant your trees, watch them grow. If more people valued home above gold, this world would be a merrier place.”

— Thorin Oakenshield

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Latest Posts

  • Lyrical Language with an Irish Lilt

    TIME to post a review on the first of my books for the Irish Reading Challenge 2011 run by CarrieK at http://booksandmovies.colvilleblogger.com. I first read The Secret Scripture, by Sebastian Barry last year, when I wrote about it on my… Continue reading

  • Wasted Time Will be Refunded

    I was going to blog on novels about Alice Perrers, mistress of Edward III, but there was an article in The New Yorker about The Phantom Tollbooth, which is 50 years old, so as I knew exactly where to lay… Continue reading

  • An Irish Reading Challenge

    I am taking a break from the book cull (it’s hard work shifting books about) to consider the Irish Reading Challenge 2011 posted by CarrieK at  Ireland Reading Challenge on http://booksandmovies.colvilleblogger.com and since a gentle ramble around Ireland is just what’s needed… Continue reading

  • Time for a Book Cull

    It is, I fear, time for a cull – a book cull. I always feel it’s a kind of sacrilege to get rid of any reading matter, but unfortunately books seem to be taking over the house: without any effort… Continue reading

  • Agatha Raisin: A Tenacious Sleuth

    Having read MC Beaton’s Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death I forced myself to read another volume from the same series, just to see if it really was that dreadful. And it was. If anything Agatha Raisin and the… Continue reading

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