84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff Narrator: Barbara Rosenblatt, John Franklyn-Robbins Published by Recorded Books on 3/06/2017 Genres: Memoir Pages: 97 Format: Audiobook Purchase: Amazon | Bookshop | Barnes & Noble | Chirp Add to Goodreads When Helene Hanff makes an innocent inquiry about the possibility of purchasing hard-to-find… August 24, 2022 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 5 ★★★★★
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome Illustrator: Helene Carter Series: Swallows & Amazons #1 Published by J. B. Lippincott on 1958 (first published 1930) Genres: MG Books Pages: 343 Format: Hardcover, Kindle or ebook Source: my personal collection Purchase: Amazon | Bookshop | Barnes & Noble | Audible Add to… April 16, 2020 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 1 ★★★★
With holiday gift-giving approaching, I thought this might be a good time to revisit some children’s classics. What does it take for a book to become a classic? First, it needs to stand the test of time: to be read and enjoyed decades or even centuries after it was written. To be… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Books from My Childhood or Teens That I Would Love to Revisit. I have always been a re-reader. Even as a child, I read so fast and so much that… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Favorite Classic Books (or) Top Ten Classics I Want to Read. I went with the latter. Here goes (and no fair berating me for not reading them yet!) As… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Castulul Bran, Brasov, Romania. (Photo by Florin73m; used under CC-SA 3.0 license) Dracula’s castle… Read more »
