Books and Chocolate

Readers, I have a conundrum.  A couple of weeks ago, I signed up once again for the Classics Spin VI , one of my favorite blogging chal...

Oliver Dimsdale as Louis Trevalyan. I've finished watching the excellent 2004 adaptation of Anthony Trollope's classic novel, He...

After a recent viewing of The Grand Budapest Hotel  (which I LOVED -- who knew Ralph Fiennes was hilarious?) I was searching the internet...

I put Rudyard Kipling's Kim on my TBR Pile Challenge list this year because it was on the Modern Library's Top 100 list, and ...

If anyone is actually still following this blog, I apologize for my long absence.  As noted in a previous post, nearly two months ago (!!!!...

It's time for another Classics Spin .  I know I've been away from blogging lately, but this challenge always inspires me to r...

Who wants to guess where I'm going next week? Here are a few literary clues: Anyone????

For my most recent Classics Spin pick, I got #20 on my list, He Knew He Was Right  by Anthony Trollope.  I was pleased because it was...

Persephone book #9 is Few Eggs and No Oranges: the Wartime Diaries of Vere Hodgson, 1940-1945.  It's probably the longest Perseph...

This is my third book this year completed for the TBR Pile Challenge , and one of the many books from Virago press that I still have on...