RobynJun 5, 20194 minBABY GEEK That would be me - not the actual baby. Although this is a picture of the baby being geeked which I know is off topic, but she's so dar...
RobynFeb 22, 20195 minREADING MATERIAL 38 WEEKS AND COUNTING. ELIZABETH TAYLOR, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont. Tomorrow is 39 weeks. There is still no baby. Well, there is a baby, but she is still e...
RobynDec 21, 20184 minA COUPLE OF BOOKSPenelope Lively - again - How it all Began & Roald Dahl's My Uncle Oswald Sometimes there are days that are just a bit less hard. Someti...
RobynNov 14, 20184 minHEAT WAVEPENELOPE LIVELY This year has not been the year of the many books - for some reason I seem to have picked stupidly long books and then fo...
RobynAug 23, 20184 minTHE CAMOMILE LAWNMary Wesley just did not write enough books. A couple of years ago Waterstones told me to buy The Camomile Lawn. I don't always do what...
RobynAug 12, 20181 minA LITTLE BIT OF KITCHEN SCIENCEGrandma sent us a book. Sally is always excited by post that is addressed to her, and a big book of activities was indeed an exciting thi...
RobynJul 17, 20182 minOF HUMAN BONDAGELove Somerset Maugham - finally got round to reading his long one. I developed a bit of a Somerset Maugham obsession a few years ago - I ...
RobynMay 26, 20184 minONE HUNDRED BOOKSAnother list? A list of a 100 brilliant books by women has just been published for this year's Hay Literary Festival. I had a look throug...
RobynMar 26, 20183 minTO SEE A WORLD IN A GRAIN OF SANDBlake and Huxley. "To see a World in a Grain of Sand and a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand and Eternity i...
RobynMar 18, 20182 minBEAUTIFUL (FANTASTIC) BOOKSTHE FANTASTIC FLYING JOURNEY AND THE FANTASTIC DINOSAUR ADVENTURE Some of the things you remember from your childhood aren't quite as goo...
RobynMar 10, 20182 minINTERNATIONALLY AWESOME WOMENI'm a day late, but then so was the parcel. Women and books - what more could you want? I love this series. We are trying to raise a dau...
RobynMar 7, 20182 minA LITTLE BIT OF MYTHI expect this is going to sound snobby... I needed an antidote to the relentless and somewhat nonsensical carnage of the last of the 5th ...
RobynFeb 22, 20182 minTHE 5TH WAVEHumn. I find myself somewhat ambivalent. I quite enjoyed the film, but the book less so - perhaps it was going back over the same thing...
RobynFeb 13, 20182 minFROM AESCHYLUS TO ATWOODA note on the title of my blog. By training I'm a Classicist, but by day I mostly teach (and let's be honest, read) English - so these tw...
RobynFeb 12, 20182 minTHE MIDWICH CUCKOOSJOHN WYNDAM Really good! I like to have the occasional author binge - the current object is John Wyndham. I read the Day of the Triffids...
RobynJan 26, 20183 minTHE LAST MANOR Can you make it to the last page? Almost a year ago I started a course on Dystopian fiction through Oxford University's Continuing Edu...
