Norfolk Bookworm

I love reading books in letter or diary form. I'm far too dull and lazy to keep my own diary but the format is one that I adore in lite...

I've always loved being read to. I know that my parents read me bedtime stories long after I could read for myself, the books that reall...

...and no I'm not blonde! I've not been well over the past 10 days or so and I've not simply lost my reading mojo, I've actu...

...the shops are full of s'lebrity autobiographies! I've just walked through the city centre and while I wasn't actually shoppin...

I have to confess that I haven't been reading a lot of fiction recently. I recently dusted off my camera and have been forcing Mr Bookwo...

I've just been to the cinema to see Stephen Fry Live, sort of. He was performing at the Festival Hall and it was beamed into provincial ...

Meme. Mt friend Sam over at Books, Time and Silence posted this meme which he had found at Booking Through Thursday and I couldn't res...

Banned Book Week 2010 I've been working on a big project for work just recently. The last week in September is the ALA's Banned Book...

After last weekend's teen fiction binge I've been reading a lot of non fiction. Some of it in preparation for the Banned Book event...

Mr Bookworm and I were out and about yesterday and as we always seem to, we ended up in a secondhand bookshop. Once more I have a huge pile ...

I'm not a fan of the crime novel, in fact the closest I've really come to the genre is the Roman Mysteries series by Caroline Lawren...

I think that is is clear that I like reading. In fact my worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere without a book. Even thinking about it can...

As I said in an earlier post I did a lot of reading on my holiday, some books were better than others but I don't actually regret the t...

The 2010 Branford Boase Award was announced last night. I was in three minds about this as two of my top books from last year appeared on ...

I’m making headway into my giant to read piles. Some of them I put aside for holiday and that instantly lessened the guilt I was feeling. ...

I've been looking forward to today for ages. I am venturing out of Norwich and down to London for the afternoon and evening and it is g...

Well the title is slightly misleading, but once more I am in a reading dilemma. Through many and varied (and gratefully received) sources I ...

Wow - I really can't believe that I've had a blog for a whole year. It has been a busy year, lots of travel, lots of reading and a n...

One of the projects that I started through work was an International Literature Group. Over the past 5 months a small group of us have atten...

I've had lots of books reserved at the library and typically it seems that all of them have become available at once. Luckily the housew...