Category Archives: Kate Atkinson
Started Early, Took My Dog – Kate Atkinson
When one of the books you have been most looking forward to all year pops through my letter box my mind seems to split in two. The first half wants to drop whatever it is I am already reading and … Continue reading
Filed under Books of 2010, Kate Atkinson, Review, Transworld Publishing
Books to Watch Out for in 2010
Last year I did a post on the books that I was looking forward to in 2009. This year I thought, along with my new slightly though not very much more minimal TBR, I would go with a more simplistic … Continue reading
Atkinson Additional…
A quick second post today (which is strangely becoming a habit) but if you love Kate Atkinson as much as I do then you might want to have a gander at this here. As Kate is the latest author to … Continue reading
Filed under Book Thoughts, Kate Atkinson
Travel Companions (and a hard but worth while competition)
So by the time you read this I shall probably be on a train going halfway up the country to my homeland, that’s right the blogs you get over the next few days are timed and have been written in … Continue reading
The Lesser of Two Bookish Evils
What I love about Booking Through Thursday is that it always makes me think. I generally end up waffling on (as I am sure I will do today) and find varying tangents to discuss. It makes me think out the … Continue reading
When Will There Be Good News? – Kate Atkinson
I know its Booking Through Thursday day today but as I wrote about it before here (and I don’t mean that in a off way) I thought I would pop a link to it and mention it before discussing the … Continue reading
Filed under Kate Atkinson, Review, Richard and Judy, Transworld Publishing
The Richard & Judy Challenge
So it was announced this week what the Richard & Judy Books 2009 are. I have to say Amanda Ross (some people believe Richard & Judy have a say also, some don’t, I don’t comment) has chosen possibly the best … Continue reading
Not Writing But Blogging…
I know I probably don’t know half of the good book blogs out there in the ether. I have found some I love and there are several I subscribe to or drop in on, which have become favourites of mine … Continue reading
New Book Resolutions
First of all Happy New Year! It’s that time where we both look forward and look back and stock take isn’t it? At the beginning of last year when I start the blog properly one of the internal resolutions that … Continue reading
Filed under Book Thoughts, Kate Atkinson, Kate Summerscale, Lionel Shriver, Tess Gerritsen, Will Self
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
When Will There Be Good News? – Kate Atkinson
This will be my last book of 2008 which is an odd feeling. I fly off to Barcelona later today and am taking Anna Karenina with me and strangely although I hope to read a lot I don’t think I … Continue reading
Filed under Books of 2008, Kate Atkinson, Review, Transworld Publishing
One Good Turn – Kate Atkinson
Normally when you love a book you race through it, however with Kate Atkinson’s second novel featuring retired detective and private investigator Jackson Brodie ‘One Good Turn’ is one of those novels that you just have to savour and enjoy … Continue reading
Filed under Books of 2008, Kate Atkinson, Review, Transworld Publishing
Breaking The Book Ban
So much for me not buying any more books as was my orders (see previous Book Ban blog) and intentions. These were ruined when I went to a charity shop that I had forgotten existed. Now this shop is like … Continue reading
Filed under Anne Tyler, Book Thoughts, Kate Atkinson, Susan Hill, Tess Gerritsen
The Palace of Strange Girls – Sallie Day
I had the joy of reading this for New Books Magazine which was not a hard ship, last year I had to do a review of The Falling Man by Don DeLillo last year reviewing is something I could definitely … Continue reading
Filed under Harper Collins, Kate Atkinson, Review, Sallie Day
