Author lost the plot. Reads like a first draft but has potential.

Definitely a keeper!

An irresponsibly written bad joke.

2/10 an over-written, plodding murder mystery. I didn't care whodunnit by the time I got halfway.

Like all the Moomin books this one is ace.

So far so clunky.

Reading three books as the mood takes me, although one is for work (review): The Ballad and the Source by Rosamond Lehman; Thus Were Their Faces by Silvia Ocampo; Now That It's Over by O Thiam Chin.

This was my second time reading this book and I fell in love all over again.

I didn't realise this book was about the same character that appears in the Newbery Medalist 'Criss Cross'. Love the whimsical, poetical writing style, but wish there was more of it.

Book no 5 in the series and I need a break from Chief Inspector Chen's constant philosophising and poetry spouting. However, I do love his partner Detective Yu and Yu's wife Peixin. Will continue after I've re read Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones.

Another book for my TBR shelf. I love 'A Bit of Difference' so I'm really looking forward to this!

Rosamond Lehmann is one of my favourite DWW authors. Recently acquired another two secondhand Virago Modern Classics by her. And this is my collection of her books, so far.

I'm currently on an Inspector Chen binge and really enjoying the books especially the historical aspects of communist China and the day-to-day realities of living in 90s Shanghai. I can't wait to find out what happens to Detective Yu's family!

Tonight I feel like reading a crime novel and I've chosen this one.

Recently finished re-reading this. It was the first DWJ I ever read and it remains one of my favourites by her.

I'm finally going to read this, after years of hearing others in my Girlsown book group talk about it.

I love how the life of the author is potrayed in this graphic novel, especially the way Hercule Poirot and her other famous characters are used to tell her story.

This is technically the first Moomin book but feels very different from the ones that followed later. I don't even consider this part of the Moomins series - perhaps it's closer to the comics. Can't say as I've yet to read them, though I own some of the compilations. The illustrations here do not, IMO, portray the Moomins quite as well as the ones in the series. Well, perhaps Jansson needed time to develop all aspects of her characters.

An Unsuitable Attachment (my 2nd favourite BP novel) is a particularly Pymish story, filled with Anglican vicars and their wives (and female admirers), fussy bachelors, socially awkward anthropologists, excellent spinsters, single persons ineffectually navigating the perilous seas of love.

Read this several years ago and enjoyed the story of a Muslim teenager torn between cultures in Australia. I'm now editing the Malay translation for Scholastic Malaysia and loving the book all over again.

Reading this and really enjoying the experience.

One of my most precious possessions: The Last of the Dragons by A de Quincey, illustrated by Brian Hobb. I've owned this hardback copy for more than forty years and it's falling apart.