Category Archives: General bookishness

Rating the Famous Five titles part 2

Posted on April 13, 2024 by Fiona

Continuing now with the remaining half of the books. Part one can be found here. Five Have a Wonderful Time Again, this could literally apply to all 21 books – probably why it is one of the titles I always … Continue reading →

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Rating the Famous Five titles

Posted on March 30, 2024 by Fiona

A recent comment on the blog has inadvertently inspired this post. A regular reader pointed out that I had written Five Have a Wonderful Time when I actually meant Five Fall Into Adventure. It wasn’t that I had confused the … Continue reading →

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Enid Blyton references in other works of fiction part 3

Posted on January 31, 2024 by Fiona

I’ve done two of these posts already, but here I am with enough material for a third post. Books about bookshops, libraries, booklovers and so on are always full of literary references. However, most of them are references to works … Continue reading →

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126 years of Blyton

Posted on August 11, 2023 by Fiona

Enid Blyton was born 126 years ago today! In honour of that I thought I would make a list of 126 great moments from her books. These are in no particular order, in fact I looked up a way to … Continue reading →

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Enid Blyton references in memoirs

Posted on February 9, 2023 by Fiona

I have managed to put together two posts so far, detailing all the references to Enid Blyton and her works which have turned up in other works of fiction. Now it’s time for all the ones I’ve found in memoirs. … Continue reading →

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Enid Blyton references in other works of fiction part 2

Posted on November 26, 2022 by Fiona

For years I have been collecting little quotes where other authors have mentioned Blyton in their books. The first I noted long before the blog even existed, though I have no idea what purpose I had noted it down for … Continue reading →

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How many Enid Blyton books have I actually read in the last ten years?

Posted on September 8, 2022 by Fiona

As someone who writes upwards of 2,000 words a week about all things Blytonian, I feel that I actually don’t read an awful lot of her books! At least nowhere near as many as I used to. So I thought … Continue reading →

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My Top 10 Malory Towers moments

Posted on May 18, 2022 by Fiona

Malory Towers is one of my favourite series so here are my ten favourite moments from the books. 10 Irene loses her health certificate Second Form at Malory Towers Irene loses her health certificate almost every term, but this is … Continue reading →

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Enid Blyton references in other works of fiction

Posted on April 6, 2022 by Fiona

For quite a long time I have been keeping a list of all the times I’ve found references to Enid Blyton in other things I have been reading. I think I now have enough to write a post now, though … Continue reading →

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Locked down library displays weeks 14 and 15

Posted on July 26, 2020 by Fiona

Here we are at the end of my book displays. I still have no information on when I may return to work but I have more or less run out of ideas, and 100 seems like a nice round number … Continue reading →

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Locked down library displays weeks 12 and 13

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Fiona

I’m nearly at the end of these – as I expected I’ve run out of ideas before getting to go back to work. Day #78 123, ABC Day #79 Colours and shapes I had intended to include the first Crayons … Continue reading →

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Locked down library displays weeks 10 and 11

Posted on June 28, 2020 by Fiona

Lockdown seems to be going on forever – but it looks like libraries might be able to open from July 15 here in Scotland. I haven’t heard anything from my work yet but I could be back in less than … Continue reading →

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Locked down library displays weeks 8 and 9

Posted on June 21, 2020 by Fiona

I’m getting this one organised in advance so hopefully I won’t forget to schedule it this week! Here’s what I did for my displays in weeks 8 and 9 of the lockdown. Day #50 Enid Blyton reference edition The caption … Continue reading →

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Locked down library displays weeks 6 and 7

Posted on June 14, 2020 by Fiona

I’m still doubling up the weeks so that I can get through them a bit quicker. Here are links to weeks one, two, three and then four and five in case you missed them. Day #36 Marvel An array of … Continue reading →

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Locked down library displays week 4 and 5

Posted on June 7, 2020 by Fiona

A bit late but here are what I did in weeks 4 and 5. In case you missed them here are weeks one, two and three. Day #22 Call the Midwife Four books written by Jennifer Worth (three about her … Continue reading →

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Locked down library book displays 3

Posted on May 17, 2020 by Fiona

In case you missed them, here are links to week 1 and week 2, and now for week 3! Day #15 Vehicles Brodie has a real thing for anything with wheels. He loves cars but has a special fondness for … Continue reading →

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Locked down library book displays 2

Posted on May 6, 2020 by Fiona

I shared photos of my first week of displays here and now I’m back with what I did back in week 2 (it’s currently week 6…). Day #8 Treasure Fairly straightforward – books about treasure of some kind. From back … Continue reading →

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Locked down library book displays

Posted on April 22, 2020 by Fiona

There’s a reasonably long back-story to this, so feel free to scroll straight to the pictures! I’ve sort of lost track of the days and weeks but some time ago in March we had to self-isolate, then my work closed. … Continue reading →

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