A lovely gentle easy read, that made me smile and made me hungry!

I am not sure that this book has converted me to the graphic novel format, but I did enjoy it. I found the format somehow harder to stick to than a conventional novel, with the result that I read this in fits and starts, putting it down for a while and then having to read back a bit to remember where I'd got to.
Having said that, I enjoyed (not sure that's quite the right word) this book, and the stylised artwork was perfect for the story. Many things, particularly in the earlier part of the book, resonated with my own childhood as the author and I are much the same age.
I am fortunate that her accounts of sexual abuse did not resonate personally with me, but they were enlightening and harrowing, and interspersed perfectly with the account of the reign of terror of the Yorkshire Ripper (which I remember impersonally as a news story that didn't really affect me) and the many failures of the police investigation. thought=provoking too about the role and treatment of women in our society, and how the police (reflecting society as a whole) regarded the victims of the Ripper, particularly those who were sex workers. I would like to think that 30 years or so later we have moved on, but I am not sure that we have entirely.
A worthwhile read.

An easy read, although some of the story did not make easy reading at all - it was the type of book that made me want to know what would happen, so I read it fast. Beautiful descriptions of the flora and fauna of the marsh; the drawing of the characters was less good, perhaps a little two-dimensional. I didn't see the ending coming (I am no good at seeing endings - I know others found it obvious), but I did find the ending when it came a little rushed and anti-climactic.

I found this book more interesting than enjoyable, and it sent me down several I internet rabbit holes looking up things I wanted to know more about. It was an easy read, but I found the very short chapters and sparse prose style a little wearing after a while. I enjoyed the inclusion of poetry, and of so many differ points of view.On the whole, recommended.

Things disappear and are forgotten - or remembered as something that once was, but now you can't remember what it was or what it was for. If you do encounter something disappeared, you scarcely recognise it. The Memory police take away anyone who does remember.
Quietly devastating. Society gradually unravels and it is seen as normal and unstoppable. The end is slightly surreal and almost inevitable.

I think I have read this in the past, but it's not memorable enough for me to remember the details of the stories. I love Margery Allingham, and adore Albert Campion, her far from conventional detective, but this is not one of her best works.
I enjoyed "The Case of the Late Pig", although the first person point of view jarred with me a little at first. I think my favourite story in the collection was "The Man in the Window", which I did dimly remember from a previous read.
The other stories were enjoyable, but not memorable.

One of my favourites of the long Chalet School series. Kathie Ferrars, the new mistress of the title, is likeable from the first and you can't help but sympathise as she tries to walk the line between being friendly with the girls and keeping her dignity. Not helped by Mary Lou at her bumptious best (or worst?) But of course it's all sorted out in the end with the aid of a near fatal accident. Loved the glimpses into the staffrroom, especially Biddy and the Heads. An enjoyable read.

Lady Susan was fun, a quick read. Lasy Susan herself was deliciously - almost impossibly - bad.
I enjoyed The Watsons, felt a lot of sympathy for Emma, wished there was more of it.
I wasn't too keen on Sanditon. Charlotte seemed a bit bland - maybe would have got more interesting as the novel progressed. The other characters were neither interesting or likeable on the whole.

Rather wondered where this would go following the happy ending of the first book, but that's all overturned in the first chapter, and things go wrong on all fronts. But this is a happy story on the whole, with familiar characters (including the pet puffin) and some new ones. Challenges arise and are overcome. There is baking,there are parties,there are misunderstandings and downright nasty people, but even they mostly come good in time. It all comes right in the end : of course it does. A happy easy read.