Posted in Reading on October 24th, 2007 5 Comments »
I’m reading “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett at the moment. Most of you will probably know that it’s a children’s story written in 1911 about a little girl who lost her family in India and was sent to stay at a huge, rambling old mansion on the Yorkshire moors and how her experience […]
Posted in Reading on November 30th, 2006 6 Comments »
If you’re into romance, you might want to nip down to Tesco, Sainsbury, WH Smith or whatever other local outlet happens to stock Harlequin Mills & Boon and grab your copy of Fiona Harper’s first book, Blind Date Marriage.
Well done, Fiona. I shall be securing my copy asap.
Sharon xx
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Posted in Reading on November 23rd, 2006 24 Comments »
I’m currently reading The Spider’s House by Sarah Diamond and until about half an hour ago, I was enjoying it. It’s not the kind of book I’d put it forward for a CWA Dagger but it was definitely readable if not exactly unputdownable.
So what went wrong? Something as simple as reading an interview with the […]
Posted in Writing, Reading, Friends on October 26th, 2006 4 Comments »
Have you been on The Inner Minx? What do you mean, what is it? It’s a blog, you clod! A blog! Just like this one, only different. And yes, I know that’s sort of oxymoron-ish but let’s not get technical, eh?
The Inner Minx is also a person. She’s also a very good writer. How do […]
Posted in Reading, Family on September 27th, 2006 9 Comments »
Leo’s inspired me to write a post again. What is it with the man?
This time it was his post about his young daughter and her love of books that got me thinking about my own children and how they’ve developed on the reading front.
As most of you already know, I have three children. Paul’s 28 […]
Posted in Reading on September 19th, 2006 8 Comments »
I’ve finally finished ‘Driving In The Dark‘. Even Richard said, as I turned the final page, “Thank Christ for that! You’ve been reading that bloody book for months!”
Well, not quite months, but one month. I started it when we got back from Weymouth and that was on 19th August. Today is 19th September. Exactly one […]
Posted in Reading on September 14th, 2006 11 Comments »
When I talk to friends about books and read blog posts about the same, I’m totally in awe of the speed at which the average person manages to get through a novel. Why, I ask myself, am I so darned slow?
I have about fifty books on my TBR shelf (TBR = “to be read” for […]