Notes from a Book Addict

01 Dec 2019

Susannah reading, Newsletter, books 8 Comments Permalink

George Eliot turns 200

Susannah 1 December 2019 8 Comments

George Eliot turned 200 on 22nd November 2019. Virginia Woolf once described Middlemarch as “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people”. Read more

01 Dec 2019

Susannah reading, Newsletter, books 6 Comments Permalink

A Good Obituary

Susannah 1 December 2019 6 Comments

I always enjoy reading a well-written obituary. My favourite one from 2019 was published in The Times in June, and concerned a legal professor named Sir Guenter Treitel, QC. Read more

01 Dec 2019

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BBC’s 100 Novels that Shaped our World

Susannah 1 December 2019 8 Comments

When I was about 15 my English teacher handed out lists of the books that we should have read if we were to consider ourselves a well-read person. Read more

01 Dec 2019

Susannah Book of the Month, Monograph, Authors, Recommended Reading, books 6 Comments Permalink

Wilkie Collins & ‘The Moonstone’

Susannah 1 December 2019 6 Comments

When Wilkie Collins sat down to write The Moonstone the detective novel did not exist as a literary form. His spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired this popular genre. Read more

01 Dec 2019

Susannah Poem of the Month, Poets, Poems, Newsletter 6 Comments Permalink

Hone Tuwhare & ‘Rain’

Susannah 1 December 2019 6 Comments

Today’s newspaper included a photo of some young children in rural Australia jumping in puddles of rain that had just fallen. In this terrible time of drought, a poem about rain has extra resonance. Read more

01 Nov 2019

Susannah Book of the Month, Monograph, Recommended Reading, reading, Newsletter, books No Comments Permalink

Another Year of Good Reading

Susannah 1 November 2019 No Comments

Two years ago I started an exciting programme called A Year of Good Reading. Commencing in January 2018 an enthusiastic group of avid readers signed up Read more

01 Nov 2019

Susannah reading, Newsletter 2 Comments Permalink

Enriched by Reading

Susannah 1 November 2019 2 Comments

I have recently been watching a fascinating Netflix series called ‘Inside Bill’s Brain’ Read more

01 Nov 2019

Susannah reading, Newsletter 9 Comments Permalink

Living Where The Poets Lived

Susannah 1 November 2019 9 Comments

In April next year it will be poet William Wordsworth’s 250th birthday. Dove Cottage (pictured above), Read more

01 Nov 2019

Susannah Book of the Month, Monograph, Authors, Recommended Reading, books 2 Comments Permalink

Jean Rhys & ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’

Susannah 1 November 2019 2 Comments

For me, the major fascination of this book comes from its relationship to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, a novel I love. Read more

01 Nov 2019

Susannah Poem of the Month, Poets, Poems, Newsletter 2 Comments Permalink

Symphony in Yellow

Susannah 1 November 2019 2 Comments

An omnibus across the bridge
Crawls like a yellow butterfly
And, here and there, a passer-by

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01 Oct 2019

Susannah reading, Newsletter 11 Comments Permalink

Do you weep over books?

Susannah 1 October 2019 11 Comments

As a child I regularly wept over books. The death of Beth in Little Women, of Matthew Cuthbert in Anne of Green Gables, Read more

01 Oct 2019

Susannah Memoir, reading, Newsletter 4 Comments Permalink

Two Memoirs

Susannah 1 October 2019 4 Comments

I have two intriguing and very different memoirs to recommend this month. Read more

01 Oct 2019

Susannah reading, Movies, Newsletter No Comments Permalink

Lost Boys and Lost Girls

Susannah 1 October 2019 No Comments

I love watching Emma Thompson on screen, so was interested to hear of a new movie being made which stars Emma, Read more

01 Oct 2019

Susannah Book of the Month, Monograph, Authors, Recommended Reading, books No Comments Permalink

Henry James & ‘Washington Square’

Susannah 1 October 2019 No Comments

When in 1847 Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre was published, with its plain heroine, many readers felt terribly cheated. Who wanted to read about an unattractive female? Read more

01 Oct 2019

Susannah Poem of the Month, Poets, Poems, Newsletter 18 Comments Permalink

Tarantella

Susannah 1 October 2019 18 Comments

Do you remember an Inn,
Miranda?
Do you remember an Inn?

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