Aphrodite's Workshop for Reluctant Lovers
As mentioned in this post, I received a Valentine’s Day gift from Bloomsbury: a copy of Aphrodite’s Workshop for Reluctant Lovers by Marika Cobbold. Never one for looking a gift horse in the mouth, I curled up with book (and cupcakes) on the day and was far from disappointed; the novel was the perfect indulgence [...]
Claire’s Corner
In this week’s Claire Corner I want to discuss my current cull of books, which you will see from above is very much a work-in-progress. Like Carrie Bradshaw and her walk-in closet of Manolo Blahniks, I like to hoard books and keep a hold of favourites and store unread ones for a rainy day … [...]
Jane Austen's Emma
I first read Emma by Jane Austen a decade ago when I studied it in my final year of school. I have never seen an adaptation -not even the 1996 film version with Gwyneth Paltrow- but being a devout fan of the 1995 BBC mini-series of Pride and Prejudice, I was intrigued as to [...]
Persuasion
I thought I would share with you in this post an image of my copy of The Complete Novels of Jane Austen. Prompted by Claire at Kiss a Cloud’s post this week on complete novels in the one volume I wanted to show off my Austen and stress that it isn’t too heavy or [...]
Everything Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a girl in possession of a book obsession, must be in want of a reading challenge. I have so many books to be read presently that I contemplated long and hard over committing myself to anything more than those and Ulysses. However, the Everything Austen challenge [...]
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