Had quite a good shopping day today - I had to pick up my bag with both arms by the end of the afternoon. It was nice to be outside and not get wet. One of my purchases included 'All That Katy Did' an omnibus edition of the first three Katy books - I've been looking for a hardback edition of 'What Katy Did at School' to replace a paperback, but ( Read more... )

In the High Valley: Susan Coolidge Latimer House 1949.I got this many, many moons ago, and may have reread it since, but last year, I bought a copy of ‘Clover’, a sequel to the ‘What Katy Did’ trilogy, which brings Clover Carr to the high valley of the title of this sequel. I meant to reread this book after finishing 'Clover'. It took me a few ( Read more... )

A collection of links, some of them related to recent posts and things of interest, some that I came across quite some time ago.

Swallows and Amazons memorobilia here!

A critical review of Diana Wynne Jones's The Game (in lieu of my thoughts which I never did write up) by a DWJ fan.

Author Hilary Mantel talks about looking for female role models ( Read more... )

I was hoping to post my review of the film Inkheart, but it requires a bit more work than I have time for, and it may be a while in coming. Meanwhile, I bought four books yesterday (two Brazils, one of which I may own already, a Geoffrey Trease and a family book from a writer I didn't know of before. This was after picking up Clover by Susan ( Read more... )