Norfolk Bookworm

A Series Of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket As I said in my last post I've been reading for various project...

Quick Reads Return Back in 2018 when I was at my poorliest I was kindly gifted some of the wonderful Quick Reads titles (I wrote about ...

Clockwork or All Wound Up by Philip Pullman I'm really pleased that Kentishbookboy wants to continue with our book group in to a ne...

My top rated books of 2019. After the shocking discovery yesterday of just how many books I've read in the past decade it is time t...

What a decade! In shamelessly using a popular music CD series I am cunningly going to talk about the past decade in books. This is of c...

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling These books have been a huge part of my adult life, I started book sellin...

Challenging my world views I love reading books that are set in locations that I've never visited (and probably will never visit) w...

Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus by Sandi Toksvig As a fan of both Toksvig's earlier books ...

Redshank's Warning by Malcolm Saville I used to be an avid collector of children's books from the 1920s/30s/40s but in recent y...

I Believe in Unicorns - Michael Morpurgo I love many of Michael Morpurgo's books - if you read too many in a row then they can becom...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Longer chapters made keeping apace on reading this book a little more challenging than our recent ...

Time for me to post a confession - please don't think that the slow down in book related posts has anything to do with the Kentishbook...

The Boy in the Dress by David Walliams I know that it is a really obvious thing to say but making sure you read three chapters a night ...

The Umbrella Mouse by Anna Fargher This was the first book that the Norfolkbookworm and the Kentishbookboy read simultaneously. For me ...

Matilda by Roald Dahl The postman brought me a wonderful envelope this morning - a note from my nephew, his chosen nickname for these p...

Matthew Bourne's Romeo+Juliet It has been a while since I've posted about the theatre on the blog, I haven't given up going...

Sharing books as a family. While I use the nickname Norfolkbookworm a lot it seems that I've managed to share this love of the writ...

The Wainwright Book Prize 2019 Over the past 18 months we've been spending a lot more time outside walking and nature watching. At ...

I had no idea that it was nearly 2 months since my last update - it has been a busy time but I think that I blame the heat/humidity since ...