Blogs about: Daphne Du Maurier

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ltbrwnhare wrote 12 hours ago: More than 10 years ago, my mother had a stroke. It damaged her vision, making reading a real chore i … more →

Tags: Writers & Writing, Charles Dickens, Mary Jo Stephens, Books 2, Authors, Book List, alexander mccall smith, Amy Tan, John Kennedy Toole

Gaston Leroux: A Man of Heaven and Earth

Bloom wrote 1 day ago: by Nicki Leone “No, he is not a ghost; he is a man of Heaven and earth, that is all.” ― Gaston Lerou … more →

Tags: Fiction, debut authors, features, author features, Nicki Leone, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Alfred Dreyfus, Gaston Leroux

April Wrap-Up & May Plans Plus The Classics Club Spin #26 comments

adamsbibliomania wrote 1 day ago: As you may well have noticed, it is rather late in May to be doing a wrap-up of April and planning m … more →

Tags: General, 1984, alexander mccall smith, big bang, Conan Doyle, Goals, Hound of the Baskervilles, le petit nicholas, meyer

Books to Travel By

merrymennonite wrote 1 day ago: I love armchair travel. LOVE it. My favorite way to armchair travel is by reading fiction that is re … more →

Tags: Books, Reading, armchair travel, Travel, @ vacation, getaway, A thousand splendid suns, Khaleid Hosseini, The Number One Ladies' Detective Agency

Jamaica Inn - Daphne Du Maurier (1936)12 comments

heavenali wrote 2 days ago: Daphne Du Maurier birthday 13th May Seeing it was my birthday on Monday – the same day as dear … more →

Tags: birthday reading challenge, Book Reviews

Rebecca

lucywilliamspoetry wrote 3 days ago:   Another of my all time favorite book’s is Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca. “If only th … more →

Tags: Books, Literature, Rebecca, writing

Five Question Friday for May 17th,2013/Day 17 of Reading Challenge!

therealsharon wrote 3 days ago: Welcome! As always, you may answer these questions in your own post or in the comments section! This … more →

Tags: Rebecca, 30 day reading challenge, Day 17 of readin challenge, facebook, favorite quote from a book, Five Question Friday, Questions, Reading Challenge

She undid her sexy blows ....11 comments

madonnavalentine wrote 3 days ago: Twenty years ago I accepted my first teaching position in a tiny town in the southeast of Western Au … more →

Tags: Teaching, High School, Meaningful Life, expatriate, Australia, humour, Childhood, Australian childhood, australian humour

My Cousin Rachel - Daphne Du Maurier (1951)8 comments

heavenali wrote 5 days ago: My Cousin Rachel certainly shows Daphne Du Maurier to have been a consummate storyteller – excellent … more →

Tags: birthday reading challenge, Book Reviews

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again…

hannahknowles2014 wrote 5 days ago: A true statement indeed, as we travel back in cinema history to Hitchcock’s masterpiece, Rebecca. Ad … more →

Tags: moral complexities, Lawrence Olivier, Byronic hero, Joan Fontaine

Q&A with Hannah Hayes

GirlonCloudNine wrote 5 days ago: I recently had an email from the delightful Hannah, previously of Foxtail & Fern, you can find h … more →

Tags: Fashion, Hannah Hayes, qa, corduroy, Calke Abbey, The Staves, The Beach House, Foxtail and Fern

Short Story Review: East Wind

Jan wrote 6 days ago: From The Doll: The Lost Short Stories by Daphne du Maurier The Doll: The Lost Short Stories is a col … more →

Tags: Review 2, Books, Short Story, Review, Short Story 2, du Maurier, The doll, East Wind, the doll: the lost short stories

Movie Quote of the Day - Rebecca, 1940 (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

cinemafanatic wrote 1 week ago: Maxim de Winter: The woman that was washed up at Edgecombe, the woman that is now buried in the fami … more →

Tags: Movie Quote of the Day, 1940, Laurence Olivier, Robert E. Sherwood, Alfred Hitchcock, Joan Fontaine, Philip MacDonald, Rebecca, Joan Harrison

Voices from the Grave #69: An Extract from 'The Make Believe World of Daphne du Maurier'5 comments

maedez wrote 1 week ago: An extract from The Make Believe World of Daphne du Maurier. FYI-Daphne du Maurier was born 106 year … more →

Tags: voices from the grave, writing, Books, Writers, Reading, Literature, Novels, interviews, Home Movies

Book Review: Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier

Sipech wrote 1 week ago: This was my second reading of Jamaica Inn. Regular readers may be under the impression that my readi … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Fiction, Cornwall

Happy birthday Daphne Du Maurier23 comments

heavenali wrote 1 week ago: Daphne Du Maurier 13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989 shares my birthday, and so as this is my month of birt … more →

Tags: birthday reading challenge

Luise Berg-Ehlers: Mit Miss Marple aufs Land8 comments

entdeckeengland wrote 1 week ago: Ich bin keine passionierte Krimileserin. Ich habe einige Sherlock Holmes und Miss Marple Romane gele … more →

Tags: Bücher, Luise Berg-Ehlers, Miss Marple, Englische Krimis, dorothy l. sayers

A mishmash of recent readings6 comments

michelle wrote 1 week ago: It’s been quite a while since I last finished a whole proper book, the last one being Miss Tim … more →

Tags: Books, Food, journals & memoirs, Reading, Short Stories, Travel, H. V. Morton, Paris, Umberto Eco

Top 10 Opening Lines2 comments

The cat that walks by herself wrote 1 week ago: 10. ‘Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.’ Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov 9. ”Wha … more →

Tags: Thoughts about books, 1984, a clockwork orange, Anthony Burgess, Books, Don DeLillo, Fiction, GEORGE ORWELL, Journey to the West


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