by cols61 | Mar 27, 2016 | British and Irish Fiction, Reading
‘A journey is a person in itself: no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle we do not take a trip: a trip takes us.’ John Steinbeck There probably aren’t many variations on... 
by cols61 | Mar 14, 2016 | US and Canadian Fiction
……………………………In the days since I finished reading Emma Hooper’s debut novel ‘Etta and Otto and Russell and James’, I’ve been wondering how to describe it……because it... 
by cols61 | Mar 14, 2016 | British and Irish Fiction, Reading
………………………………………Reading this was a bit like rediscovering an old shirt at the back of the wardrobe that I’d once loved, had stopped wearing as I’d put on weight and... 
by cols61 | Mar 13, 2016 | Chatting
……………………If your idea of a sexy book is the gardening classic Fifty Sheds of Grey, or it’s Northern cousin Fifty Shades of Gravy, then this post will be a disappointment to you. But if you aren’t looking for... 
by cols61 | Mar 13, 2016 | British and Irish Fiction, Reading
‘Pray do not mock me / I am a very foolish fond old man / Fourscore and upward / Not an hour more or less / And to deal plainly / I fear I am not in my perfect mind / Methinks I should know you / And know this man’ King Lear Act 4 Scene 7 In his review of...
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