This week’s blog is mainly about travelling in Porto and Amsterdam. However, I have been indulging myself with some novels bought for fun rather than NetGalley reviews. Two have men as their main protagonists, which is an interesting change for me. One, The Trophy Wife by Valerie Keogh I have not finished. It is aContinue reading “Week beginning 29th September 2023”
Monthly Archives: September 2023
Week beginning 20 September 2023
Hillary Rodham Clinton is the subject of this week’s review. Do All the Good You Can, How Faith Shaped Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Politics by Gary Scott Smith, University of Illinois Press, 2023 will be published in October. Gary Scott Smith provides a rather different perspective on Hillary Rodham Clinton, or so it seems to me.Continue reading “Week beginning 20 September 2023”
Week beginning 13 September 2023
This week I have recovered my earlier review of The Agatha Christie Collection as I am renewing my acquaintance with her work during my visit to Wallingford where Agatha Christie is being commemorated. Agatha Christie, The Agatha Christie Collection (Kindle Edition) The Agatha Christie Collection is a great ‘starter’ collection for readers new to Christie.Continue reading “Week beginning 13 September 2023”
Week beginning 7 September 2023
Barbara Pym, her novels and her relationship with her sister, Hilary, are at the forefront of my mind this week. I have just attended the Barbara Pym Conference on the theme of sisterhood, so Some Tame Gazelle (first published 1950, Virago Modern Classics 2009) is an appropriate place to begin. Barbara Pym’s first published novelContinue reading “Week beginning 7 September 2023”
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