My ultimate comfort read is a memoir of sorts, but totally focused on the writer’s relationship with books and reading. I can’t get enough, especially when the author is from the UK. Lucy Mangan is the television critic for The Guardian and this is her second reading memoir, after Bookworm, which focused on her childhood …
Ahhh. Reading Eddie Winston is like a chocolate bonbon, that bit of sweet and touching, when the day has been a drag. Eddie is 91 years old and has never been kissed. And wants a chance to find love, real love. He works in a charity shop, where he salvages wee bits from donations, to …
Autumn has finally arrived here in the Northwest corner, sneaking up on us perhaps because so much of October was dressed up in summer-like weather, but it’s still the perfect time to look back at some favorite reads from the summer just passed. Lining them all up, it seems that although I didn’t actually get …
