books

Swallow Bookworms from LissaT ^Pro 74 days old

Last night we held our meeting here, and I was somewhat surprised by the mixed reception Tennyson's poems had received. The real problem of course is ...

Swallow Bookworms from LissaT ^Pro 116 days old

There was hardly anyone at Swallow bookworms last night - a mixture of reasons nice and nasty - but discussion both there and during the last month suggests ...

Swallow Bookworms from LissaT ^Pro 154 days old

[ ... ] all the books with book club in the title to put on the list regardless of quality, and they have all been among the weakest books we have read. ...

Keeping the World Away from LissaT ^Pro 172 days old

[ ... ] elegiac books without much plot it has faded rather rapidly in my mind. Shame, because I did like it very much indeed with very few reservations. ...

Nothing to blog about from LissaT ^Pro 252 days old

[ ... ] Fforde's books (and I did enjoy this one) but she seemed to be working on autopilot here with the mixture as usual, but no 'surprise' about faces ...

Reading Group from LissaT ^Pro 270 days old

Swallow Book Worms meeting here last night, and the general consensus of opinion on Narrow Dog to Carcassone was not dissimilar to my own - enjoyable ...

Narrow Dog to Carcassonne from LissaT ^Pro 282 days old

Narrow Dog to Carcassonne was Swallow Bookworms' February choice.   Actually it has been on our choice list for ages, but it seems that a lot of other ...

"The Time Traveler's Wife" from LissaT ^Pro 312 days old

[ ... ] of books that were complete rubbish, so that doesn't prove much. One of the things I admired was the strong grip the author kept on the whole ...

Stream of Unreadability from LissaT ^Pro 357 days old

I opened the latest offering from Swallow Bookworms with delighted anticipation. Two pages later I was flicking through to find out whether the author ...

The Farm by Richard Benson from LissaT ^Pro 361 days old

It's Swallow Bookworms tonight, and this was our latest book. The Farm by Richard Benson is a book which reads like the blog of somebody very young, ...