Lisa Guidarini's Profile

Happy birthday! Any my "thing" was a little pillow my grandmother sent me. I forgot it at her house once (six hours away) and all my wailing resulted in her having to quickly pop it in the mail. It was so well loved she sewed a new pillowcase for it, which I wasn't entirely happy about...

Commented Aug 7, 2013 on Happy Birthday to... at dovegreyreader scribbles

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So beautiful! I love, love, love lavender and that cake... Yes, please!

Commented Aug 7, 2013 on The Lavender Farm Gardens... at dovegreyreader scribbles

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What a clever idea to continue the Holmes tradition via his landlady! I'm going to search these out...

Commented Aug 5, 2013 on The Detective Ladies of Baker Street at Harriet Devine's Blog

My dear Lynne! My daughter will be studying in Wales a year from now (Swansea). I'll have to pass along to her the fact winter loses its grip so much earlier in Britain. Here we still have snow. No flowers popping up 'til late March/early April at the earliest. And we can't plant anything 'til mid-MAY... Sigh. But she won't be that far from you next year, will she? The lucky thing! Lisa :-)

Commented Feb 16, 2013 on In Devon... drifting snow... at dovegreyreader scribbles

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Large container of pate (can't do accent mark!) coming your way, Magnus my friend, if you pick me.

Commented Oct 10, 2012 on Prize draw copies of The Lives She Left Behind by James Long at dovegreyreader scribbles

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I must read this book! Creepy old houses are definitely my sort of thing. Lisa

Commented Oct 1, 2012 on The Hunting Ground by Cliff McNish at A Work in Progress

I found it! I did! I posted about today's book haul on my blog and In a Dry Season was one of them! I'm pleased and have two books to finish ahead of it - including the JK Rowling The Casual Vacancy - then I'll start it. Yay!

Commented Sep 29, 2012 on The Inspector Banks books of Peter Robinson at Random Jottings

I'm about 200 pp in and I think it's well-written so far. It won't be the best book I've read this year but it's far from the worst. I'm trying to think whose style it reminds me of but can't quite decide. It's very British and serious. The characters are well-drawn - though so many it's hard keeping track of who's who. The plot's okay, not quite as tight as it could be but she has 300 pages left to draw it in. Pretty good, methinks.

Commented Sep 28, 2012 on Can J K Rowling weave a new kind of magic after Harry Potter? at Random Jottings

Mmm, yum! I'm just now starting to look for such engrossing thrillers - came across Karin Fossum's name, have you read her? I love Ian Rankin, for one, and preferred settings are villages in Britain. This one, featuring a lost village is exactly my sort of book! Will hit the used bookshops to look for this and also the Vintage Penguins I've fallen in lust with. Thanks for the lovely review!

Commented Sep 27, 2012 on The Inspector Banks books of Peter Robinson at Random Jottings

Yesssssssss!!!! Congratulations!!

Commented Sep 13, 2012 on We Are The Chosen Ones at Causerie

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Guardian 1000 Reads: Death in Venice by Thomas Mann [530]

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, 1912 “Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.” Death in... Continue reading

Posted Jul 25, 2012 at Bluestalking