Georgiana Podsnap's journal

There have been a lot of bookish blog entries lately, for the simple reason that there hasn't been much else to blog about. Yes, I'v...

Phew. I've finished Bring Up the Bodies , and I can certainly understand why Hilary Mantel, in the end, decided to break off after the B...

Oversized paperbacks, of the kind that's often published now instead of/at the same time as the hardback, are a bit useless. They are ju...

After having enjoyed a spot of literary tourism during my holiday (one week still to go, thank Heaven) and having started on Jude Morgan’s l...

You’d think, wouldn’t you, that a proper four-week Swedish holiday would give one more time to blog, instead of less? Not so – the days are ...

A worrying change has come over me lately: I'm suddenly more sensitive to male beauty than I used to. When I caught myself spending the ...

My so-called bodice-ripper read Through A Glass Darkly has proved a shock to me - by not being a bodice-ripper at all. I doubt that it even...