Books

Top Ten Tuesday – Book Titles Featuring Ordinal Numbers

March 10, 2026yggdrasille

This week’s theme from That Artsy Reader Girl is dedicated to the numbers that define an item’s place in the series. I thought I’d also do a neat and orderly list from first to tenth.

Quote of the Day – Getting Old

February 26, 2026yggdrasille

“As you get older, you don’t get wiser. You get irritable.“
— Doris Lessing

The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham – Book Review

January 20, 2026yggdrasille

This 1957 sci-fi novel about a very different kind of alien invasion raises questions about morality and survival, and has some of my favourite genre tropes: small English villages and weird creepy children.

My Cats by Charles Bukowski

January 15, 2026yggdrasille

I know. I know.
they are limited, have different
needs and
concerns.

but I watch and learn from them.
I like the little they know,
which is so
much.

they complain but never
worry,
they walk with a surprising dignity.
they sleep with a direct simplicity that
humans just can’t
understand.

their eyes are more
beautiful than our eyes.
and they can sleep 20 hours
a day
without
hesitation or
remorse.

when I am feeling
low
all I have to do is
watch my cats
and my
courage
returns.

I study these
creatures.

they are my
teachers.

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons – Book Review

January 13, 2026yggdrasille

A send-up of the early 20th century rural novel, this sharp and funny parody clearly outlived its subject of mockery and stands on its own as a highly amusing read.

The Luzhin Defense by Vladimir Nabokov – Book Review

January 6, 2026yggdrasille

This is a rare book that I loved mainly because it made my brain tingle with its brilliant, beautiful prose, even if I found it emotionally chilly and distant.

Rivals by Jilly Cooper – Book Review

December 9, 2025yggdrasille

Reading this book was a bit like binge-watching a long and addictive 80s soap opera, with a dash of beautiful English countryside.

Top Ten Tuesday – Books Set on a Farm

November 25, 2025yggdrasille

Thanksgiving is this week’s theme from That Artsy Reader Girl. We don’t celebrate it Down Under, but I thought I’d run with the general idea of harvest and farming.