Katie Who Can Read

Well, here we are at the end of the month and the end (or is it the beginning?) of another week. And what a week it's been: all the jobs...

Hello to you all and a happy new year! It's a grey, dreary, blustery day down here, with the promise of storms later. My sister has bee...

Looking back over the hundred-plus books I've read this year, I was surprised to see which books had stuck in my mind and how many I had...

For the last year, since Sky Atlantic started showing HBO's adaptation of the epic fantasy series, I've been unable to escape read...

  Anne of the Island is the third book in L. M. Montgomery's classic series about the imaginative redhead, and in many ways t...

I wouldn’t have heard of Winifred Holtby’s South Riding if it hadn’t been for the new 3-part BBC adaptation masterminded by Andrew Davies ...

I chose to read Beloved as part of Sarah's Back to the Classics challenge, as it was a regular title to appear on lists of books banned ...

When Kamryn Matika wakes up on her thirty-second birthday, her only plans for the day are to dress up in a spangly gold dress and high heels...

What better way to start a new year than to rediscover my favourite book of all time? When old-fashioned, late-middle-aged brother and sist...

New Year's Resolutions My first video message - thanks to my sister Jenny for being cameraperson. Sorry about the poor light quality, ...

I began the year determined that 2010 would be The Year of the Reread , (well, mainly rereads!) devoted to rediscovering all my old favourit...

This week I have signed up for the Back To The Classics challenge, hosted by Sarah at Sarah Reads Too Much.  The Challenge runs from J...

Ally is like a bad fairy who arrived at the party and cast an evil spell over the world. Everything in my life is fracturing and changing a...

As soon as Fallen arrived on the bookshelves of my workplace in all its gothic glory, it was inevitable that I would not be able to resist i...

The Book Blogger Hop It's that time of the week again when book reviewers hop around each other's blogs like crazy frogs. I have...

Linger is part two of a trilogy about werewolves living in Minnesota. In book one, Shiver , Grace is an ordinary high school girl with a les...