Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
The Loved One – Evelyn Waugh
I have to thank those of you who mentioned Evelyn Waugh’s ‘The Loved One’ when I asked for books on Victoriana or death because without them The Converted One would never have ordered this book for me and I would … Continue reading
Filed under Books of 2010, Evelyn Waugh, Penguin Books, Penguin Classics, Review
Snow & The Last Loot
Isn’t it amazing how snow (which we get almost every year) seems to cause no end of issues? It’s only frozen water. Maybe it’s just the northerner in me who had to trek almost a mile to school down steeply … Continue reading
Filed under Book Thoughts, Evelyn Waugh, Haruki Murakami, Petina Gappah, William Boyd
Collectibles – Booking Through Thursday
Hardcover? Or paperback?Illustrations? Or just text?First editions? Or you don’t care?Signed by the author? Or not? That is the question or questions today from Booking Through Thursday. I have to say that though I own a ridiculous amount of books … Continue reading
Filed under Book Thoughts, Evelyn Waugh
Collecting The Classics
Only six days into the New Year and I am going to have to edit one of my resolutions already. It was that tricky one of not really buying anymore books. I think what I should change it to ‘not … Continue reading
The Savidge Dozen
Blimey so a reading year is over… a year of some good reading, some difficult reading, some readers block plus some dire reading and some frankly amazing reading. In fact there was so much amazing reading I changed my mind … Continue reading
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
So after leaving book group (I know shocking) myself and Polly have started ‘Rogue Book Group’ in which we only read books that we both already own or read the books that have been recently made into films and then … Continue reading
Filed under Book Group, Books of 2008, Books To Film, Evelyn Waugh, Penguin Classics, Review
The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters – Charlotte Mosely
Now if you are sat there thinking ‘he can’t have read that mammoth book in only a few days’… I haven’t. This has actually been a book I have been devouring in fits and starts for almost a month, well … Continue reading
Filed under Books of 2008, Charlotte Mosley, Evelyn Waugh, Harper Collins, Nancy Mitford, Review
