Notes from the Slow Lane

As you can probably tell, I have got thoroughly out of the habit of blogging, not helped by a cat who objects to me spending too much time a...

This month we have a book on a slightly different topic, Toynbee Hall: The First Hundred Years by Asa Briggs and Anne Macartney .  For years...

Finally I am up to date - just about!  This month's book is another I have listened to while knitting, Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollop...

As I have not yet decided on April's book yet I thought I would write about March's book (well, books) first, maybe something someon...

Alas moving house has absorbed all the energy (and some) of the first three months of the year, so I am catching up on the first two months...

Naturally my book for this month is Christmassy, how could it not be?  I am not sure how I stumbled across Christmas with the Savages by Ma...

This month's book, The Dreaming Suburb by R F Delderfield , is one set locally to wear I live, which is always a matter of great curios...

This month's reading has been somewhat theological in nature;  Surprised by Scripture by Tom Wright, former Bishop of Durham, has part...

During the commemorations for the centenary of the First World War last month I decided that I should re-read Vera Brittain's memoir Tes...

This month's book is actually a children's book, Grace by Morris Gleitzman , a British born author who has lived in Australia most ...

Again, scraping in close to the wire, partly this month because for most of the month there was no one book that grabbed me and that I felt ...

This month's choice was something of an epic, The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, I listened to all 27 or so hours of it on audio boo...

Yet again I have left it until the very end of the month to write this, procrastinating and not getting around to things as usual.  Anyhow, ...

Squeezing in with only hours of April left to go, I'm so very organised.  This month's book was The Odd Women by George Gissing , wh...

Yet again I have let the month almost slip through my fingers and get away without me having written about this month's book, or rather ...

Before we run out of February here is my book for the month: An Omelette and a Glass of Wine , a compilation of the journalism of Elizabeth ...

I know I am a little late to the party but I came across this idea from Laura at a Circle of Pines , for an informal, book a month, book gro...