Mollie on the March by Anna Carey
Mollie Carberry ; book 2 I quite enjoyed the first book in this series, The Making of Mollie, and this second book picks up pretty much where that one left off....
17 March 2018
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Mayhem by Sigrid Rausing
Added to Mount TBR in March 2018 – I came across this book as it was longlisted for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize. It sounded interesting It is a strange book...
11 March 2018
Se7en dir. by David Fincher
I can still remember going to see this film in the cinema more than twenty years ago. It is one of those films that has always stayed with me. And what’s...
9 March 2018
from Mayhem by Sigrid Rausing
But how can you trust anyone’s story? Every story, including mine, is an enactment of what we wish to be true, an edited version of our selves. Mayhem: a memoir
8 March 2018
from Mayhem by Sigrid Rausing
We thought we were so modern. But then so did our parents, and so did their parents before them. Mayhem: a memoir
8 March 2018
from Mayhem by Sigrid Rausing
It’s easy to express vulnerability when you are strong, and almost impossible when you are not. Mayhem: a memoir
4 March 2018
The wonder engine by T. Kingfisher
The Clocktaur War ; book 2 Some books are just great fun. You sit down to see what they’re like and before you know it you’ve read the whole book and...
3 March 2018
Feb 2018 round up
In February I read 5 books : The wind in the willows by Kenneth Grahame The book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch The making of Mollie by Anna Carey The Unwomanly...
2 March 2018
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
translated by Michael Hofman Given all the tragedy, destruction, and horrors of World War II I don’t often stop to consider what life was like for “normal people” under the Nazis....
1 March 2018
The wind in the willows by Kenneth Grahame
It’s fairly impossible for me to be objective about The Wind in the Willows. I’m not sure if I’ve ever read the whole book before, but I certainly remember many extracts...
28 February 2018
from Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
He might be right: whether their act was big or small, no one could risk more than his life. Each according to his strength and abilities, but the main thing was,...
25 February 2018
Feb Mount TBR additions
Kerrigan, Jo – Old ways old secrets rec’d by @Justaddbooks – read Alexievich, Svetlana – The unwomanly face of war – saw it listed on a booksellers site and thought it...
25 February 2018
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