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Gudrun’s Tights 1st Birthday Giveaway! (closed)
Hip, hip, hooray! Gudrun’s Tights is 1 today! I have so enjoyed writing this blog for the past year and getting to meet so many of you wonderful readers. Blogging is one of the greatest joys of my life and it is all because of you! I do enjoy writing about books and my literary…
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Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
I’ll always be grateful to Simon and Harriet for proposing and promoting Muriel Spark Reading Week. Because of the event I got the chance to read a fantastic, funny and invigorating novel. So, thanks, guys! Memento Mori is set in London in the ’50’s and the plot centers around a group of elderly…
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Classics Challenge {April}
Do you judge a book by its cover? Me too! I love cover art and am convinced that my reading experience is more pleasurable and rewarding when the book I am reading has a beautiful cover. This month’s Classics Challenge prompt has us looking at the cover design of our current classic. Friends, I am…
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The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles was just shortlisted for the Orange Prize and I couldn’t be more excited.This retelling of the story of Achilles and the Trojan War is one of the most gorgeously written books I’ve read in a while and made me completely engrossed in learning more about Greek mythology and the ancient world.…
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‘Worlds that Sing to You’
“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how…
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4 Outstanding…Memoirs
The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food by Judith Jones – I am really fond of reading books about food, chefs and cooking. Judith Jones is a self-taught cook and a long-time editor at Knopf who discovered Julia Child and helped make her a household name in America. In this memoir she talks about her…
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Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Who? Olive Kitteridge, retired school teacher, and various members of her family and citizens of her town. What? A Pulitzer Prize winning novel constructed of 13 stories that depict human struggle, loneliness, loss, grief, broken relationships, disappointment, heartache and rejection, but also hope, connection, support and forgiveness. Where? Crosby, a small coastal town…
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A Bountiful TV Harvest
When season two of Downton Abbey ended a month ago I felt a horrible ache knowing I will have to wait at least a year to find out what happens to the beloved characters. I always say I am not much of a tv watcher, but I am going to admit it for all to hear – I love tv.…
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‘I Like Trees’
“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here. When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything; I begin just where I left…
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Thunder on the Right by Mary Stewart
Last month, I went on a little spending spree and bought five of the new vintage-looking Mary Stewart editions published by Hodder & Stoughton last year. I just love the way these colorful covers look. They do Mary Stewart proud and make her novels a tad more enticing to today’s readers (I hope). Thunder On…
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