Love by Toni Morrison
If you are a regular reader of my blog then you may well know that Toni Morrison is one of my favourite writers. I own all of her books (in matching white editions): I cherish her books; I ration them out. To date I have read six of Morrison’s nine novels and now Love may [...]
Claire’s Corner
So, I’ve been blogging rather sporadically of late; all I can offer as a reason is that I’ve been busy and London was in the sweaty grips of a heatwave (the operative word being “was”). Pedicures and Pimm’s have been more appealing than posting, to be honest, but I do miss conversing about all things [...]
A Russian Affair
One of my very first reviews on Paperback Reader was of First Love by Ivan Turgenev and soon after I was gifted the complete Penguin Great Loves boxset. When the Classics Circuit announced a tour of Imperial Russian literature, I was given the opportunity to read further about Russian love from the collection by opting [...]
Paper Towns by John Green
John Green’s writing has been described as being privy to “a secret you can’t wait to divulge” and “like a John Hughes film… quirky and funny [mixed with] Sofia Coppola” (both in relation to his first novel, Looking for Alaska); Nymeth -recommendation reliant- is of the belief that “John Green can do no wrong”; [...]
Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa
When I asked in my recent acquisitions post which book you suspected I had already read, nobody guessed Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa. One of the shortest books on the stack and also by the same writer of one of my favourite reads of the year so far, it was a natural choice for me; [...]
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