I’ll let you in on a secret, I’m really not feeling that festive yet. Every day I see the announcements that there are so many weeks, days, minutes, seconds until Christmas day and I’m not filled with the usual Christmas …
You Had Me At Hello- Mhairi McFarlane (A Rainy Day Read)
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 …