Here are a couple of links:

From Silver Petticoat Review Why you should read Mary Stewart.This feature delves into the appeal of Stewart’s romantic suspense books from the perspective of someone who'd just found them. I started reading them as a teenager and return to them as comfort reads, so I have no objectivity, but the points made here ( Read more... )

Here are some links I have meant to post for a good long while:

The Chalet School at War review by Did You Ever Stop to Think

From the same blog, a thought-provoking analysis of the first page of ‘The School at the Chalet’.

Also, a review of Head Girl of the Chalet School

And her Chalet School tag


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This itty-bitty post is bought to you by there being no Olympics on TV for another four years. I expect that the people running it would want more attention to be given to heartwarming stories about sportsmanship rather than other, less ennobling things. And so I oblige ( Read more... )

Earlier this week, news came that a Nancy Drew TV show is being developed, but ( Read more... )

Both from The Guardian:

Where are all the heroines in YA fiction?: firebird

This feature wanders away, somewhat, from the original question, to discuss covers and marketing, but ends with some recommendations.

Here is an obituary for Mary Stewart, who has passed away at the age of 97, by Rachel Hore. I found it sympathetic and enlightening about ( Read more... )

I was saddened by the news that Maeve Binchy has passed away. ( Read more... )

I've just posted a link to a feature about the rise and rise of Novak Djokovic at tennisfans. I'm really looking forward to the French and the grass season!

In other news, BBC Films has announced that it's doing a new adaptation of Swallows and Amazons. My advice would be to play it straight and not to shoehorn a Harry Potter actor in if they're not right ( Read more... )

I was saddened to hear of Diana Wynne Jones's death. Reading her obituary, it was interesting to learn of the links to other children’s fiction writers ( Read more... )

Since last posting more of my books from my parents' house have come to mine, including a Jeffrey Archer that wasn't mine and went straight into the charity shop bag. I hope to finish filling a second bag before the end of the week, as limited space is making me more ruthless. Not ruthless enough for my mother, and when I think of all the books ( Read more... )

The news about Woolwoorths turned me into a vulture, but I was sad to hear that apparently, Murder One will close by the end of the month. It's a specialist paperback genre (crime and romance mainly) genre bookshop on Charging Cross Road. Ever since I found it, I always paid it a visit whenever I was in London (but a shop on the street). It isn't ( Read more... )