cyphomandra: fractured brooding landscape (grass by durer)
I have spent the afternoon attempting to extract a large amount of clematis from a rose bush, a process which involved acquiring a lot of scratches as well as snagging myself on the rose bush at frequent intervals. I am also now wondering if I'm allowed to put the clematis in the recycling bin as it is an official Noxious Weed, but I'll deal with that later. Fortunately my book backlog is less problematic.

I have some longer reviews I want to get on to, so this will be relatively brief.

Noel Streatfeild, Apple Bough. )

E.M. Channon, The Honour of the House. Re-read. )

Elinor Lyon, The house in hiding. )

Phillis Garrard, Hilda at school, The doings of Hilda, Hilda’s adventures. )

Doreen Swinburne, Jean’s new junior. )

Constance White, Girls in Flight. )

Pamela Rushby, Circles of Stone. )
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There are times when I am just overwhelmingly dim. I finally, today, worked out that the nifty, round bookshop with the unusual shelving system (books grouped by theme, fiction and nonfiction alike - Harry Potter under Revenge, for example, and a series of fascinating books involving polar exploration) a friend of mine took me to in Oxford last year was the QI bookshop, connected with the QI TV show hosted by Stephen Fry that I have watched and enjoyed hugely, also in the UK. Anyway. A tiny moment of delayed epiphany.

I'm behind on books, partly because I end up writing too much about each one. So, focussing on the short and pithy:

Elinor Lyon, Run Away Home. )

The Ordinary, by Jim Grimsley. )

A Lamp is Heavy, Shelia MacKay Russell. )

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