Norfolk Bookworm

Till We Eat Again - Judy Gruen I've had a few more success's with proofs downloaded from Net Galley since the last time I posted...

Here we go again...another post full of excuses as to why I'm not reviewing a book! Once more my reading has slowed down, however th...

 Sadly the Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library didn't win the Library of the Year award on Monday night.  We've shrugged off th...

A Small Free Kiss in the Dark by Glenda Millard A while ago a friend in publishing sent me an advance copy of a new teen novel to read. ...

What the Butler Saw, Vaudeville Theatre, May 2012. This was a surprise addition to my theatre calendar for 2012: an unexpected trip to L...

Hay Fever, Noel Coward Theatre, May 2012. This theatrical trip was nearly a disaster.  Once more there were huge rail problems on the da...

War Diaries, published by Simon and Schuster and the Imperial War Museum I've written in other places about my fascination with the ...

I always knew I worked somewhere very special but we are all very proud and excited at the Millennium Library because we've made the ...

Dancing on Ice, Nottingham Arena, April 2012 I didn't intend 2012 to be a year of new challenges and experiences but that does seem...

Life in the Dales I started reading the Gervase Phinn autobiographies a few years ago and found them great fun. Phinn started out as a t...

She Stoops to Conquer, National Theatre Live (encore), Cinema City Norwich. April 2012 Having never seen any theatre from the 1700s by a str...

The Recruiting Officer, Donmar Warehouse, March 2012 From all accounts my theatre going friends and I were incredibly lucky to secure ticke...

Phew! The first Norwich Crime Festival is more or less over. As I write this post there is just one book signing session to go. On the whol...

Mr Norfolkbookworm and I have just had a week away where we did nothing more strenuous than stroll from our apartment to a restaurant. It w...

Aida, Royal Albert Hall, March 2012 This was a new theatrical experience for me - an opera, in Italian and staged in the round. I'm not ...

I've still not learned my lesson, despite my last post being all about how much I had to read I still found myself browsing Net Galley ...

I think I've solved a problem... ...however much I read the piles around the house never seem to get smaller. I do pass books on when I...

This was supposed to be a review of the first piece of theatre I plan on seeing in 2012 - oh well plans are nice! I think that the trip was ...

While I know that I am not the most prolific and regular of bloggers I have a feeling that service may get even more sporadic over the next ...

Reading Rut With my reading currently being stuck in a bit of a rut - since Christmas I've read just one new book but in the most part h...