Since I am trying hard to finish a few last books before the end of the year I should really put my library requests on hold until January, but a few new ones have slipped through.  I've been waiting for ages for a couple of them and I hate the idea...

I love making lists.  If only I stuck to reading the books on the lists I'd really be quite proud of myself.  I tend to get distracted once the new year gets going, but that never stops me from doing a little planning anyway.  I've made these lists...

So, my Molly Keane reading project continues.  I feel, however, that I've not done justice to her second novel Young Entry, which was written when she was just nineteen and published in 1928.  My haphazard reading style of late completely disrupted...

Although I'm concentrating on reading a couple of other books this week, as Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters is such a long book, and I want to finish it before the year is out, I've been picking it up whenever I can fit in a chapter.  I think...

Over the short holiday break I dropped by my favorite used bookstore to do a little browsing.  They have the best selection of books and are literally jam packed.  You have to step over piles of books and squeeze through the aisles.  It's not an...