TudorRose ⋅
A Gemini, with various interests. I love reading, to the extent a book goes with me everywhere. I am one of those annoying people who seem to have a collection of blank notebooks, ready to be used. And a huge TBR book pile.
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Sharp Objects/The Day of the Triffids (REVIEWS) in Back entries: 2013 - 2015
I’m not sure why I picked up Sharp Objects (Gillian Flynn, 328 pages including acknowledgements and reading notes). The story is about Camille Preaker, who is sent to investigate the disappearanc...
Divorce, divorce in Back entries: 2013 - 2015
Well, it's raining yet again. I'm thinking of going to the gym this afternoon for a little while. My mother emailed me this morning - to inform me that my brother and sister-in-law have separat...
An exchange in Back entries: 2013 - 2015
I went and grabbed a coffee and breakfast at a café before I started work yesterday. As I got up and grabbed my bag, I noticed a couple and their daughter (a year or so old) at a table near the d...
Dark Places/Cat's Cradle (REVIEWS) in Back entries: 2013 - 2015
In Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (Pages: 424, including Acknowledgments), Libby Day has been spending several years drifting since giving damning evidence against her older brother in court as a c...
My father in Back entries: 2013 - 2015
Just a very quick entry tonight. I want to go and finish my paper journal entry that I started earlier (four pages in, already - a mix of writing up my trip to Malaysia and Vietnam in 2010 and pr...
Mrs Dalloway/Gone Girl (REVIEWS) in Back entries: 2013 - 2015
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Pages: 172) is the story of Clarissa Dalloway and some of her acquaintances on the day of her throwing a party. Remembrances of their past and incidents over the c...
Scary Garden Gnomes in Back entries: 2013 - 2015
Not a good start to today - I managed to lock myself out of the house earlier this morning, and my neighbours weren’t home so I couldn’t ring for a locksmith. So I had to break in to get in, and ...
47mm of rain in Back entries: 2013 - 2015
Bit of a short entry today. I'm feeling a bit tired at the moment, despite my going to bed uber-early last night. I was awake at 1am to go to the bathroom, then got back to bed and dozed for the ...
Burial Rites/No Fixed Abode (REVIEWS) in Back entries: 2013 - 2015
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (pages: 338, including Author’s Note and Acknowledgements) is set in Iceland in 1829. Agnes Magnusdottir is sentenced to death for her involvement in the murder of two...
Q and A in Back entries: 2013 - 2015
Had next to no sleep last night, and have been out of bed since about 4.20 this morning (it’s now nearly 8 am). So, it’s going to be a short entry this morning. All I can remember from my dream o...
Lest we forget in Back entries: 2013 - 2015
It's ANZAC Day here in Australia. And I couldn't help thinking about one of my ancestors - one of my great-grandfathers on my mother's side. I know very little about my great-grandparents on my...
This is the biography of the woman who was to marry two kings (Aethelred “the Unready” and Cnut/Canute) and is set in eleventh century England. She was great-aunt to William the Conqueror and saw...
Pregnancy dream in Back entries: 2013 - 2015
A really short entry today. I dreamt of being in a hospital ward as a patient, and getting in a row with the clinical nurse on duty. So much so that I end up writing a note of complaint saying th...
Strange Pilgrims (pages: 188) is a collection of short stories and the first GGM work that I’ve read in a while. A few of these stuck with me long after I turned the last page. The prostitute who...
RIP to another author, and another entry on books in Back entries: 2013 - 2015
RIP to another author: Firstly, RIP to Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Another great author. I read Strange Pilgrims this past week, which I loved. A definite keeper. When I heard the news, I dug out my ...
RIP to two influential (to me) authors in Back entries: 2013 - 2015
I know it’s a few days late, but I just felt like posting the following. Both Sue Townsend and Doris Pilkington Garimara have passed away. For those who don’t know either, Townsend wrote the Adr...
During the last couple of weeks, I’ve finished three books worth reviewing. The first one is The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time by Mark Haddon (272 pages, with appendix). The story...
Struggling to continue The Book Thief in Back entries: 2013 - 2015
I’m really struggling with The Book Thief. Although I like the concept, the writing comes across as very stilted. I’m not sure how I feel about Death narrating, but the asides and “observations” ...
Dark Fire by C.J. Sansom (REVIEW) in Back entries: 2013 - 2015
In 1540, Matthew Shardlake is trying to keep his legal practice going. He finds himself racing against time to try and solve two cases - he’s the defence lawyer for a girl accused of murdering he...
Brief points on various things in Back entries: 2013 - 2015
On Books: So I've picked up a few books recently. The one I've just started is The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. I'm only about four pages in so far. The other books I've bought today include Rebec...
This is the story of feuding sisters Vera and Nadezhda, who find themselves uniting against a common enemy. Their 84 year old father’s new wife, thirty six year old Valentina, a woman who is noth...
Of work and painful procedures in Back entries: 2013 - 2015
Yesterday, I had to replace the shower head in the bathroom, as the old one was well and truly rooted. So guess what the final bit of my dream was about last night? I start off dreaming that I’m...
Dissolution by C.J. Sansom (Review) in Back entries: 2013 - 2015
This is the first in the series of four historical crime fiction novels involving the hump-backed lawyer Matthew Shardlake. The year is 1537, and Henry VIII is the Supreme Head of the Church. Tho...
Adventures With Reading in Back entries: 2013 - 2015
Just thought I’d do a brief entry on my reading. I reside with two book cases practically full of books. Some aren’t mine, and I wouldn’t be interested in reading them. However, I’ve split mine i...
The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao (Review) in Back entries: 2013 - 2015
Author: Junot Diaz Publisher: Faber and Faber Genre: Fiction Pages: 335 Thoughts: My mother occasionally sends me books to read, or lets me know of titles that she’s found interesting. Most, I’ll...
