One of the first things that struck me about “The Great Gatsby” was it’s size. It’s a teensy tiny book that I almost didn’t buy because it seemed like a waste of money, £7.99 for 113 pages! I’m not sure …
Books & Reviews
The Making of A Marchioness- Frances Hodgson-Burnett
Hands up if you thought Frances Hodgson-Burnett only wrote for children? I know I did until I came across this book recently. Growing up I loved “A Little Princess” and “The Secret Garden” only a little less than I loved …
Read It: Where’d You Go Bernadette? by Maria Semple
Where to start with this book? It took me a while to warm to it and for a couple of days I put it down and considered not finishing it (I’m having a bit of a problem with this recently). …
Books I Didn’t Finish: The Night Circus
Title: The Night Circus Reason: Too Dull There are many books that could fall into the ‘too dull to finish’ category. A guide to ornithology, for example, may prove to be too dull to finish, equally an academic journal on …
Homecoming- Bernhard Schlink
Homecoming is a curious puzzle of a book. Part of the reason there’s been such a silence here at The Female Scriblerian is because it’s taken me so long to read this book! The thing is- it wasn’t boring, it …
Mary Barton- Elizabeth Gaskell
This was my first foray into Elizabeth Gaskell’s novels and it was coincidentally her own first work. When I first picked this book up, I was really just looking for a follow on from Austen and at the time Women’s …