Rereading a book can be twice as nice
My husband knows almost every line from The Blues Brothers. And nothing would make him happier than to watch it…
In praise of trashy novels
More than 130 million Mills & Boon books are sold around the world every year, equating to four books every…
The Natural Way of Things – misogyny out loud
Sometimes it is not the spoken but the whispered threat that is the most menacing. So it is with sexism…
The rise of the literary groupie
Some people swoon over Ryan Gosling in The Notebook. Others prefer Brad Pitt in Thelma and Louise. A twist of…
Which book character are you?
Most readers of Cinderella like to identify with the modest, honest and hard-working title character. Realistically, they probably have as…
A reading room with a view
When I was a child, I used to enjoy drawing ground plan of my dream house. In it, I included…
Why is it so hard to leave a book half-read?
Having grown up as part of a relatively large Catholic family, I refuse to leave any food on my plate,…
A mother’s gift of books
Jewishness is passed down the generations by women. In my family, while scant attention was paid to our Jewish roots,…
Naughty can be nice in kids’ books
One farmer is fat, another is boozy and the third is a pot-bellied dwarf. Then there is the grandmother described…
Anyone who says they’re too busy to read is kidding themselves
Mark Zuckerberg reads a new book every two weeks. Bill Gates considers himself a great reader and Barack Obama packed…
