For the last few years now, I have been feeling increasingly bah, humbug about Christmas. It just seems to get earlier and pushier every year, which frankly always makes me want to dig my heels and fold my arms. I’m usually busy pretending it isn’t happening until at least the first week in December, at which point I start to…
Next on the bookworm trail is another story with ‘good-night’ in the title – Valerie and the Good-Night Swing by Mira Lobe. I don’t have any real reason for chosing this one, other than randomly finding it in a bookshop and liking the illustrations 🙂 The gist Valerie is supposed to be going to bed, but instead she decides to…
For someone who loves Southern American literature, I can’t believe it has taken me this long to get round to Twain. I had never read any of his books I picked up Puddn’head Wilson earlier this year – and I enjoyed it so much, I was spurred on to catch up with some of his other books. So here is…
Following on from New Blue Shoes, this month I’m looking at another of Eve Rice’s picture books: Goodnight, Goodnight, first published in 1980. The gist Unsurprisingly, the book is about everyone in a city saying goodnight and getting ready to go to bed. Men, women, babies, children, pets, shops, firemen and policemen are all pleasantly saying goodnight to each other…
Time for 6 Degrees of Separation August! These months are flying by far too fast for my liking. In case you don’t know, 6 Degrees is a meme hosted by Books Are My Favourite and Best – you can check out how it all works here. This month we are starting with The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth…
Next up in the Bookworm series, we follow on from Old Hat New Hat, with another book about shopping – New Blue Shoes by Eve Rice. The gist Rebecca goes shopping for a new pair of shoes. Much like the shop assistants in Old Hat, New Hat, the salesman brings Rebecca multiple pairs to try. But Rebecca knows exactly what…
