Sign in with Facebook
C.S.’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at C.S.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
C.S. Burrough’s Followers (141)
2,996 books
|
801 friends
7,610 books
|
4,556 friends
762 books
|
1,745 friends
465 books
|
1,696 friends
176 books
|
868 friends
753 books
|
2,202 friends
1,284 books
|
271 friends
152 books
|
4,891 friends
More friends…
C.S. Burrough
Goodreads Author
Born
The United Kingdom
Website
Genre
Influences
Member Since
March 2014
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/csburrough
To ask
C.S. Burrough
questions,
please sign up.
Popular Answered Questions
C.S. Burrough
By talking to other writer friends - who always have an opinion which, right or wrong, seems to shake my block and drive me back to the screen.
|
Or Forever Be Damned
—
published
2014
—
2 editions
|
|
|
Soul Vomit: Domestic Violence Aftermath
by
—
published
2014
—
3 editions
|
|
|
Showcase: Spark
by |
|
* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
My review of Jean Rhys: Life and Work, by Carole Angier
Jean Rhys: Life and Workby Carole AngierMy rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Having read the thin earlier version and this subsequent thick-as-a-brick edition, I strongly recommend the latter if time is on your side.
Life was brutal to Jean Rhys, and she let us know it in her deliciously wry, self-deprecating, sometimes hilarious way. Her incompetence at life was magnificently offset by her profound talent f
Read more of this blog post »
C.S.’s Recent Updates
|
C.S. Burrough
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
| This historical family saga is one of my favourite literary works, which surprises me as it was written not in antiquity with my other all-time favourites, but in 2001. My introduction was director Joe Wright's 2007 BAFTA and Academy Award nominated ...more | |
|
C.S. Burrough
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
| After this sitting considerably far down my Mitford history reading list, I was taken by its erudition. My expectations were cynical, knowing it was penned by family insiders: author Jonathon Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne, is the eldest son of Diana Mitf ...more | |
|
C.S. Burrough
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
| A must for all Jean Rhys aficionados. This was her first ever published writing, which came about by chance and desperation. Those who read her posthumously published unfinished autobiography Smile Please will know that the story behind these Left Ba ...more | |
|
C.S. Burrough
rated a book really liked it
Blood Sisters: The Women Behind The Wars Of The Roses
by Sarah Gristwood (Goodreads Author)
recommended for:
History readers
|
|
|
Framing this period as a female saga has become a popular theme. This example, conceptually sharp and intriguing, stands higher than some of recent years. My usual history reading centres on the pre- and post- Tudor periods, which offers context for t ...more |
|
|
C.S. Burrough
rated a book really liked it
|
|
|
My first reading of this was under force, at school. I loathed it. When I more recently came across it and, for some reason, reread it, I loved it in its entirety. We come to appreciate things, as adults, that we despised as kids. Adaptations have fou ...more |
|
|
C.S. Burrough
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
|
'I also think a volume of letters will have to wait until everyone's dead, don't you, because of hurt feelings?' Diana to Deborah, 17 August 1980. Such was this potential 834 page can of worms, comprising just an estimated five per cent of the sisters ...more |
|
|
C.S. Burrough
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
|
Diana Mitford Mosley, tagged on this book's cover 'The Most Controversial Mitford Sister', died in Paris in 2003 aged 93. The onetime associate of Adolph Hitler, who attended her 1936 wedding to British Union of Fascists leader Sir Oswald Mosley at J ...more |
|
|
C.S. Burrough
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
|
It was known in its day as 'the Ilford murder'. Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters were British lovers hanged for the murder of Edith's husband Percy. Their 1922 Old Bailey trial became one of the biggest scandals of the still stuffy, Edwardian-mi ...more |
|
|
C.S. Burrough
rated a book really liked it
|
|
|
Restoration monarch Charles II I had long procrastinated reading on, until this splendid book appeared before me. At once admiring this elegant product, its cover art and back page snippets, I was compelled to take it home. This great-grandson of the ...more |
|
|
C.S. Burrough
rated a book really liked it
|
|
| Charming reminiscences by arguably the most eloquent published Mitford sister. Diana was perhaps less frivolously funny, in print, than novelist sister Nancy Mitford, less gritty than activist sister Jessica Mitford and less straightforwardly sentime ...more | |
Topics Mentioning This Author
| topics | posts | views | last activity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Aussie Readers:
*
List of Aussie Authors who are members of Goodreads
|
5 | 144 | Aug 27, 2019 10:09PM | |
| Aussie Readers: Free/low priced Kindle, ebooks & audio | 4259 | 1484 | Sep 28, 2025 06:21PM | |
| Goodreads Authors...: * Author List | 7680 | 20986 | 20 hours, 16 min ago |
“I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.”
―
―
“A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.”
― Good Morning, Midnight
― Good Morning, Midnight
“My life, which seems so simple and monotonous, is really a complicated affair of cafés where they like me and cafés where they don't, streets that are friendly, streets that aren't, rooms where I might be happy, rooms where I shall never be, looking-glasses I look nice in, looking-glasses I don't, dresses that will be lucky, dresses that won't, and so on.”
― Good Morning, Midnight
― Good Morning, Midnight
“Life if curious when reduced to its essentials”
―
―
“A room? A nice room? A beautiful room? A beautiful room with bath? Swing high, swing low, swing to and fro...This happened and that happened...
And then the days came and I was alone.”
― Good Morning, Midnight
And then the days came and I was alone.”
― Good Morning, Midnight
Goodreads Librarians Group
— 296456 members
— last activity 0 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
Comments (showing 1-1)
post a comment »
date
newest »
newest »
Lauren wrote: "Thanks for the friend request. Also, good answer - very good answer!"Lauren wrote: "Thanks for the friend request. Also, good answer - very good answer!"
Thanks Lauren, yes I've been a diehard Jean Rhys fanatic for about 35 years :-)
