Norfolk Bookworm

A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond As mentioned in the last post Paddington was Kentishbookboy's final read & review for ...

In which the Kentishbookboy reads on while the Norfolkbookworm flounders! I've seen so many social media posts go through talking a...

War Horse - by Michael Morpurgo This was Kentishbookboy's pick for his bingo chart "set before 1950" and I think he made ...

Book Bingo 2020 Progress With two months of 2020 already gone Kentishbookboy has sent through his book bingo sheet to show me how he'...

A book for every season... I sound a little bit like a broken record as I keep complaining of reader's block - I do remind myself ju...

Random thoughts about books. My reading tastes (as well as being eclectic) seem to swerve from books read well in advance of publicatio...

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 ...