This book was a first for me for two reasons: my first Elizabeth von Arnim and my first Virago Modern Classic. Both widely recommended by other book bloggers, so as usually I am late to the party. But i is because of those recommendations that I grabbed this book in a second hand bookshop as …
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The opening of the book contains the ecstasy of a release that every woman who has experienced marriage and motherhood will recognize and many will envy: the opportunity to be alone, to have space and privacy with no demands made upon her, to eat and sleep when she pleased, to have silence and solitude and …
Continue reading Elizabeth and Her German Garden – Elizabeth von Arnim – Quotes
Just a quick selection of sentences that caught my attention, on family and on our relationship with food. Enjoy and let me know what you think in comments! Do you think we know how to eat or is it something we lost and need to learn again? How much do we owe to other members …
We Need to Talk About Kevin has been on my TBR for two years now, but I'm dreading it a bit, either I'll hate the epistolary form, or it will be an amazing book and devastating because of that. Stuck in this conundrum I decided to start easy and got on to Big Brother. Pandora and …
It is a short book, so I'll keep my review short too. The length of the book does not make it any less important. Hitchens writes a series of letters to an imaginary young contrarian, explaining what it means to him to be a free-thinking rebel. He is extremely full of himself, overly confident to …
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Below are two more quotes I picked from England, England by Julian Barnes I want to post them separately because for me they directly relate to the current situation in UK and EU even though they were published in 1998, when the world was a happier place...or was it? After various attempts at rescue, Europe declined to …
I only read two books by Barnes: The Sense of an Ending, which I liked, but not loved and Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art, which I loved at the beginning, but it became a bit repetitive by the end (it;s a collection of essays, so probably better suited to read over a longer period of time than …
