Six Degrees of Separation
No 464 The Bird’s Nest by Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson’s best known works – The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived at the Castle – have placed her oeuvre firmly within the Gothic Horror genre. However her writing is more subtle than that label suggests and The Bird’s Nest highlights the difficulty in pigeon-holing her work and emphasises…
Christmas Gifts for Book Lovers
No 628 The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
What a fantastic collection of stories to kick off my 20 Books of Summer Challenge! Often considered one of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery created a sensation when it was first published in 1948. The New Yorker received a record number of complaints about the story ranging from…
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20 Books of Summer is back! Who’s in?
Oh I’m a glutton for punishment…. The temperature is rising (slightly), the kids will be getting out of school soon and I’ve done my Great Wardrobe Changeover (I’m not the only one who does that, am I?) so it must be nearly summer time, which means another attempt at completing my 20 Books of Summer…
Happy New Year!
2014 has been a wonderful blogging year for me, finding my feet, finding my voice and unexpectedly finding a new audience and new online friends! I read more books than I planned to and stuck to my promise not to buy anything new. Amazing! I know 54 books out of 746 isn’t a great dent,…
I’m 1 today!
Today is my Blogversary! I’m quite surprised by this for several reasons, but the main one is that I’ve stuck at it for a year! I’ve started several blogs in the past, but never one with such a tight focus, so I’m pleased that I didn’t just give up. I did worry that because I…
No 701 The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
When two reading challenges align to tell you to read Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House then it is advisable to jump at the chance! I read We Have Always Lived At the Castle earlier in the year and loved it, so when the Estella Society announced their Hill House Readalong and it corresponded…
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The R.I.P IX Reading Challenge
I love Autumn; it’s my favourite time of year. I love the back to school feel of it, the nip in the air. I’m too pale to be a summer kind of girl. Maybe that’s why the R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril Challenge over at Stainless Steel Droppings has caught my eye, the notion of welcoming autumn…
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