I mentioned at the end of 2017 (!) that I’d bought a book by KLO. Well, this is it!

A Strange Adventure: Katherine L. Oldmeadow Warne (inscribed 1943-44)This is a book for younger readers, its heroine being about 10 years old and the English vocabulary not too complex, though it’s laced with Scots, Norse and Norwegian words. It’s set at the end of ( Read more... )

Curtsies and Conspiracies: Gail Carriger Atom, 2013
Finishing School Book the SecondI probably write the same thing whenever I'm commenting on reading a book in a series, but it is too long since I read the previous book in this series and I hope there won’t be as long a period between this and the next, most especially because this exceeded my ( Read more... )

The Governess: Peggy Chambers, Peacock 1964This wasn’t the book that I thought it was when I put it on my ‘to reread’ pile. In and of itself, that says something about how memorable I found it, some 20 years on after buying it ( Read more... )

This has to be the most ill-timed review I've ever posted, but I also read and enjoyed this book over the weekend, before I knew that there was going to be a Storm Doris. I've overheard a conversation bemoaning the use of the name 'Doris' - it's associated with nice women, apparently!

Doris’s High School Days: Clarice March. BlackieA few pages in ( Read more... )

The Opposite of Falling: Jennie Rooney Windsor Paragon 2010 (Large Print Edition)

I had to push myself to continue reading this, whereas I have devoured several books that have been much more poorly written. This is a book I admired more than liked. I admired the( Read more... )

Etiquette & Espionage: Gail Carriger. Atom 2015 (reprint).

‘This is the right finishing school for you, isn’t it?’

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Oh dear, over a month since I posted last! I haven't read that many books and I didn't feel that it was worth posting merely to say that I dipped in and out of the Statoil Masters Championship on the Saturday. None of the matches fully grabbed my attention, not even the last doubles (Macenroe and Barani vs Wilander and Macnamara), but it was ( Read more... )

Over the holidays, I made the most of the opportunity to just sit down and read books from cover to cover. I started off with The Big Six by Arthur Ransome, which I really don't think I'd read before. ( Read more... )