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284/365 Things I’m learning from The Woman In White

October 11, 2013 By Ellen

I wonder when Wilkie Collins wrote The Woman in White in 1860 that more than 150 years later it would still be being read. I’d be fairly sure he had no idea that in 2013 a woman would be able to listen to it being read to her, via headphones from her phone as she […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, book group, books, reading, The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins

Are audiobooks cheating?

April 2, 2013 By Ellen

Pleased to meet you: The moment when Jean Paget claps eyes on Joe Harman in the 1956 film of A Town  Like Alice I’ve been taking my mind off the discomfort of my 10K training by listening to talking books.So far I’ve plodded my way through Dawn French’s Oh Dear Sylvia (a good tale that […]

Filed Under: 10k running, A Town Like Alice, Anna Stothard., audiobooks, Barbara Kingsolver, books, Dawn French, Denise Mina, reading, talking books

Andrew Nicoll’s If You’re Reading This I’m Already Dead – the women

July 7, 2012 By Ellen

I commend to you Andrew Nicoll’s latest novel, If You’re Reading This I’m Already Dead. Andy is a fellow news predator to the Panther and all-round good egg, so I’d read and buy his book anyway. However, it’s much, much better than that. A cracking read and worthy book-group discussion choice.For a writer who is a […]

Filed Under: Andy Nicoll, book, Feminist, If You're Reading This I'm Already Dead. Andrew Nicoll., reading, women

My wild thing picks his favourite book

April 21, 2012 By Ellen

There aren’t many books I really remember having read to me in childhood – Beatrice Potter, especially the scary one with the squirrel, Anatole the French mouse and the Tiger Who Came To Tea (although I may have imagined that).  But I still remember the way I felt about Where The Wild Things Are, by […]

Filed Under: anger, bedtime stories, books, reading, toddler, Where The Wild Things Are

On tour, Discovery at Rosehill – a spooky treat

February 20, 2012 By Ellen

Kathryn Brown AKA Crystal Jigsaw Book Review:    Discovery at Rosehill by Kathryn Brown   Why I read this book: This is the first novel by brilliant blogger Crystal Jigsaw. I enjoy her blog and so when I found out she’d written a book it was an easy decision to buy it.    What the […]

Filed Under: author, blogger, books, Crystal Jigsaw, from blog to book, Kathryn Brown, paranormal, reading, review

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