There were several books which had a profound impact on me this year. I was utterly swept along by how much wisdom and pleasure there is to be found within the pages of The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. If you were ever a literature student, or were […]

This time last year, I sat down to try and work out what my ‘Book of the Year’ was, and realised that, as much as the books themselves, what really dominated my reading landscape in 2011 was the arrival of the Kindle sample in my life. I received a Kindle Paperwhite for Xmas. Getting to […]

This time last year, I resolved to keep faithful track of what I read, using Goodreads, so that I would be able to look back and reflect on what my reading had been like in the past twelve months. Cutting to the chase, while I did read, I failed on the keeping records part. In […]