Happy December everybody! I’ve been featuring a couple of what could loosely be termed ‘heavy reads’ on The Female Scriblerian lately and as much as I love those books, you do have to be in the right mood to read …
Burial Rites- Hannah Kent
There’s nothing better than being told the book you have chosen is “A GREAT choice!” by someone in a bookshop, with extra emphasis on great. That’s what happened when I bought “Burial Rites” by Hannah Kent and it gave me …
A Room of One’s Own- Virginia Woolf
I think “A Room of One’s Own” may have just cemented Virginia Woolf’s place as one of my favourite authors. Not only that, I think it’s probably pushed her very near to the top of the list! Everything I have …
Saying Goodbye to University
I haven’t done a personal post before because I wanted to keep the The Female Scriblerian strictly for book reviews, but since I haven’t been doing a lot of those recently I wanted to explain why. So here goes:
Jasmine Nights- Julia Gregson
I almost didn’t buy this book. That’s not a good start is it? I mean, almost– it suggests there must have been something wrong with it. Or, if not wrong at least not right. It could so easily ended up …
When Bad Books Attack! AKA Mr. Maybe- Jane Green
Have you ever made a rash decision that you came to regret almost immediately? You know the kind, you try telling yourself everything is fine for a while, you might even try to make things work. Inside though, you know, …