Virginia Hamilton's House of Dies Drear Illus. Eros Keith Macmillan, 1968 Hard to imagine a house with a more troubled past, historically speaking. For years I have confused Virginia Hamilton's award-winning novel with John Bellair's The House with the Clock in its Walls (which is also, by the way, a
Daphne Du Maurier's The Birds (1952) Arrow Books, 1992 Virago Modern Classic No. 498 My favourite story from this collection is "The Apple Tree". Partly because I've long believed that there is more to a tree than one might think, thanks to years of reading L.M. Montgomery's novels, in which
I've been thinking a lot about my plans for this challenge because last year's was so satisfying. You know the feeling, when you've just finished a really good book? It's hard to follow up that reading experience: you can't choose something that you know will fall short of the freshly-set-satisfied
Jane Gardam's Going into a Dark House Little Brown 1994 Jane Gardam is one of my MRE authors, having discovered Bilgewater a few years back, and this collection also counts for the 2010 Reading Challenge (in the Charity Shop category, because my friend Helen picked it up at the Oxfam
John McNally's After the Workshop Counterpoint, 2010 Not just another bookish Friday, nope: this bookish-book Friday comes to you thanks to Sasha and the Silverfish, whose rave post about John McNally's novel ensured its placement -- and her acknowledgement -- in my Bad Blogger's category. The TwentyTen Reading Challenge demands
