Midweek Assessment — 11 January

It’s been a pretty good start to 2017. I’m reading Elly Griffiths’ The Zig Zag Girlafter really really enjoying Toast & Marmalade, a memoir by Emma Bridgewater. She and her partner acquire china the way I acquire books. And she gives a lovely reason why: “There...

Midweek Assessment — 4 January

I’ve just finished reading Jennifer McMahon’s The Winter People. It’s not the kind of book I normally read (Pet Sematary scared me so badly I had to give the book away after reading it. I couldn’t sleep while it was in the house. I’ve stayed away from horror...