Cheerful Weather for the Wedding

I read Cheerful Weather for the Wedding by Julia Strachey yesterday and it was a pleasant way to spend a couple of hours on a Saturday afternoon (it is a novella of 119 pages). Persephone number 38 and one of this Spring’s Persephone Classics, Cheerful Wedding for the Wedding, seems to divide bloggers and Persephone [...]

The Woman in Black

I was incorrectly under the impression that The Woman in Black by Susan Hill was a re-telling/re-interpretation/reincarnation of The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins but it’s not; the title is merely misleading. I read the former last October and it’s a classic crime story with supernatural elements, albeit not as compelling as Collins’s The [...]

Some Prefer Nettles

I have been intrigued by Japan of late; some friends have or are planning to go travelling there and it has heightened my desire to one day visit. I love the food, the culture, the cinema. A few books I have read recently have had Japanese elements to them as well as reading some Haruki [...]

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Yesterday I watched the film Roman Holiday for the first time. Yesterday I updated my facebook status to “Claire fell in love with Roman Holiday and had her heart broken in the end”. Yesterday (well, last night) I finished reading The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery and had my heart torn out in [...]

More Library Loot

My name is Paperback_Reader and I have eyes bigger than my book stomach. In all honesty this is a serious situation. I have another pile of books from the library, even though I’ve yet to finish my last loot and also have a book group book to read for next week and other books piling [...]

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