Katie Who Can Read

The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Ah, don’t you love a good musical? Jolly-jolly, feel-good fun-and games, full of cheery cockneys bursting...

I'd been vaguely aware of Paranormalcy for a while, from other people's "mailbox" and review posts, but I'll be honest...

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as s...

Today I bring to you another selection from the Richard and Judy Book Club. This week's review title has been on my to-read pile for a w...

With its simple cover illustrated with an old black-and-white photograph, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children can be immediately...

When Daisy needs a nanny for her toddler son, she thinks 22-year-old Margaret Pride is perfect: sensible if a little old-fashioned and reser...

I've kept this blog for three years now, but only in the last year have I been updating it regularly, posting reviews of most of my ...

I've always had a faint, guilty suspicion that I don't like Alice in Wonderland quite as much as I ought. Even as a little girl I fe...

I don't often buy books on impulse, and I rarely buy books from the 9-12 age group, but in Waterstone's the other day I made an exce...

I first encountered Charlotte Bronte as a pre-teen, when for some reason or other I watched the Lowood scenes in rehearsal at the local thea...