Welcome to my third bookish Friday. Have I mentioned how much fun I'm having with Fridays now? It's not much of a stretch to assume that most people who are writing books are somewhat bookish themselves. But I don't think it's always true. I heard an interview with Katherine Neville
Marina Lewycka's We Are All Made of Glue Viking - Penguin, 2010 Typically, I plucked this library loan off the stack just two days before it was due back. It had been sitting there for 19 days along with the other xx library books (now come on, you can't expect
Ray Robertson's Moody Food (2002) A hundred pages into Moody Food, I was still wondering if this was really The Book for Me. And, admittedly, that's the feeling I had right at the start: a football scene is not a cozy welcome for this reader. But there was also a
Here are the bits that biased me towards liking Marina Endicott's novel before I'd read more than two pages. 1. The pudding-skin metaphor at the top of the second page. I think pudding-skins are far more versatile than most writers give them credit for and I overuse metaphors with them
