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Re re re recap!
I hope Christmas week has been as relaxing for you all as it has been for all of us here at Relish Towers. A break from work and, most shockingly of all, a break from reading! Although I realise many...
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Hard Times
Ahem. Allow me to sprinkle some water on this review-drought by declaring, once again (and rather smugly) that I did read a ‘proper classic’ during my blog break. That is, Hard Times by Charles...
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The Drought
Although admittedly not an entirely appropriate review to write today of all days, looking out on a blurry, wet world after a weekend of scorching heat, I thought it was high time I popped my thoughts...
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Treasure Island
Every so often I get a mixture of niggling guilt and excitement when I spy an undiscovered classic on my shelf that I haven’t picked up yet. Although this is really shallow (I am bearing my soul...
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Les Enfants Terribles
Well golly gosh, mon dieu. It really has just occurred to me what a very serious mood I must have been in on Saturday to write such an incredibly severe post!! You will all be glad to know I have...
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Great Expectations
Eeek. Can my writing skills really live up to this review. I think not but, a couple of months ago I had one of the most enjoyable reading experiences I’ve had in well over a year, courtesy of the...
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Stoner
Every so often the book group will strike upon an absolute gem, the book of the year you simply knew was going to be great and that duly delivered on all fronts. Stoner by John Williams; the...
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Untouchable
India is without a doubt one of the most exciting, life-affirming places I have ever visited; a country whose food, fabrics and music has captured my imagination for as long as I can remember. From my...
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The Book of Tea
Over the past couple of years I’ve discovered two entirely different, yet equally entertaining bookish quarterlies that, along with so many of you book bloggers out there that I try to catch up with,...
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Goodbye to All That
Goodbye to All That has, for as long as I can remember, been billed to me as the World War I book. Sod Birdsong. If I really wanted to understand realities and horrors of life in the trenches, Robert...
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