About

Life-long book lover (learning to read was the best thing I ever did – should I worry that my greatest life achievement took place before I’d even taken stabilisers off my bike?) taking a celebratory look at how books and life are indivisible.

Each post will have a theme, with a couple of books discussed, hopefully the choices won’t be too obvious and will be books that are an unusual pairing.

I only write about books I like; recommendations, not quite reviews. I want the feel of this blog to be like when you’ve just finished a book you love, you meet a friend and you’re excitedly telling them all about it.

My favourite reads include (in no particular order):

Middlemarch – George Eliot

Oranges are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson

I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith

The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway

South Riding – Winifred Holtby

Death and the Penguin – Andrey Kurkov

Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf

A Month in the Country – JL Carr

The Ice Palace – Tarjei Vesaas

They Came Like Swallows – William Maxwell

The Summer Book – Tove Jansson

Wives and Daughters – Elizabeth Gaskell

The novels of Margery Sharp; Jon McGregor; Elizabeth Taylor; Muriel Spark; Colette; Kent Haruf; Donal Ryan… Virago Modern Classics, Persephone Books…

Although not much evidenced by the above list, I also really like reading translated fiction and golden age detectives.

As of January 2014, I am also attempting to read through Le Monde’s 100 Books of the Century. This may take some time…. My other ongoing reading challenge is Around the World in 80 Books.

If you like reading, I hope you’ll like this blog & let me know your ideas for pages I should stick my face between.

Get in touch!  Email madamebibilophile@gmail.com or fill in the form below, I’d love to hear your thoughts, but please note I don’t review self-published work:

 

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