Once, coming back from a university conference in Dublin, my friends and I got chatting to one of the other attendees about what he was writing his PhD on. He answered Picaresque novels and we all nodded sagely and said it …
Hello 2015…Hello Blogosphere!
Happy New Year! January in the blogging world seems to be filled with mission statements and renewed resolutions, or so it seems. I think we all like to take the chance once a year to reassess what we want …
Chick Lit: Love it, or Hate it?
I like Chick Lit. I read Chick Lit. So why do I feel so uncomfortable about using the very name that seems to define this genre? Why does writing the words Chick and Lit together in a sentence make me …
The Best Man for the Job by Lucy King *Mills and Boon Monday*
I’ve just this moment finished “The Best Man for the Job” by Lucy King and I want to write my review immediately whilst everything is still fresh in my mind. Yes, you read that right, I finally FINNISHED a book!! …
Reading Apathy: A Case of “Have Books, Won’t Read”
Today is the first of May. Which means that it’s almost 5 months since I last posted anything here at The Female Scriblerian. FIVE MONTHS! First of all, I can hardly believe that so much of 2014 has already sped …
Top 10 Reviews of 2013
Happy New Year! First of all I can’t believe it’s already 2014! The new year sort of snuck up on me a bit as 2013 was a bit of a slow starter for me and I felt like it only …