Tag Archives: satire

REVIEW: Bumped – Megan McCafferty

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Ela

(Corgi 2011) I’d been meaning to read Bumped for ages, having previously read and enjoyed McCafferty’s excellent Jessica Darling series, to which I was introduced by my sister back when Sloppy Firsts was first out in 2001. Bumped is quite … Continue reading →

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REVIEW: Die for Love – Elizabeth Peters

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Ela

Jacqueline Kirby, assistant head librarian at Coldwater College, is fed up with life in Nebraska, and heads to New York for a bit of a change, to revisit old haunts, and to attend a convention of historical romance writers organised … Continue reading →

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REVIEW: Bellwether – Connie Willis

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Ela

Sandra Foster works for a company called HiTek in Colorado, studying fads – hula hoops, hair-bobbing, rubik’s cubes, and so on – in an attempt to find out what causes them and how they spread amongst the population. While doing … Continue reading →

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Molesworth – Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle

Posted on February 26, 2011 by Ela

(Penguin Modern Classics 2000) Down With Skool! (1953) / How to be Topp (1954) / Whizz for Atomms (1956) / Back in the Jug Agane (1959) The four Molesworth books have been much imitated and often quoted, mainly because the … Continue reading →

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Miss Ranskill Comes Home – Barbara Euphan Todd

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Ela

(Persephone Books 2008, originally published 1946) This delightful and satirical book begins on a desert island, where Miss Nona Ranskill is burying the body of her companion and friend of the last four years, a man whom she refers to … Continue reading →

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