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The Books that Built the Blogger with John from The Modern Novel

This week on The Books that Built the Blogger, I’m delighted to welcome John from The Modern Novel. John’s website celebrates the world-wide literary novel since the beginning of the twentieth century, arranged by nationality and is a fascinating acrchive of his personal but extensive survey of literary fiction since around 1900, which will continue to…

Reading Ireland Month – Sin uile folks!*

*That’s all Folks! So there we have it. Another Reading Ireland Month/ Begorrathon is over and what a great month it was! With over 130 blog posts, an array of writers, poets, musicians and movies were explored. I read and reviewed 20 books by Irish authors, reduced the 746 by 10 and discovered many, many…

The TBR Book Tag!

I was tagged by Naomi at The Writes of Woman to take part in the TBR meme. Given that my whole blog is my TBR it kind of made sense to take part! How do you keep track of your TBR pile? I don’t. I was so proud of myself for actually counting them all…

Top Ten Tuesday – Classics I Haven’t Read

As someone who has a Degree in English Literature and has been reading for well, the best part of 40 years, this weeks Top Ten Tuesday hosted by The Broke and The Bookish is an embarrassing post. There are so many holes in my classics reading that I really should get working on…

Announcing Reading Ireland Month!

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination. George Bernard Shaw March is coming, and that means St. Patrick’s Day, but there’s much, much more to Irish culture than shamrocks (which, by the by, are NOT four-leaf clovers) and driving snakes out of the country (this never actually happened either). St Patrick wasn’t…