A History of the World in 100 Objects
I’ve been having lots of fun browsing through A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor. The …
Category Archives: Nonfiction
On Rereading
In spite of all the gardening over the weekend I did manage to finish reading On Rereading by Patricia Meyer …
Q’s Legacy
If you are a fan of Helene Hanff’s 84 Charing Cross Road you will love her book Q’s Legacy. It …
Reading Women
I was interested in reading Stephanie Staal’s Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life but had …
The Pleasures of Reading
Outside of school, when I was a kid I pretty much read whatever I wanted to. I went from book …
Quiet
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain has been getting loads of …
Unpacking My Library
Lookng for a delightful snack of a book high on the voyeur rating scale? C’mon, you know you are! Who …
The Swerve
Before my turn came round for Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, I thought it was just …
Good Mail Day
Danielle’s recent foray into PostCrossing and her blog post about it and letter writing sent me off to the Letter …
Rereading Women
The essays in Rereading Women: Thirty Years of Exploring Our Literary Traditions by Sandra M. Gilbert are all so interesting …
