Recent comments and emails have raised a couple of points which I thought I ought to clarify.
1. If you want to search the site for a post on a particular book, the best way is this: look at the right hand sidebar and you'll see the second item from the top is The Reading Map and links to all reviews; if you click on the text under the line you'll find yourself on blog number 3 where there is a list of almost all the books reviewed to date, arranged alphabetically by author, and clicking on any one will take you to the relevant post. (I may well bring that list over to this site if I have to jettison other content to improve loading speed, but for the moment it will stay where it is). If a book hasn't had a review post as such, it won't appear in the list, though if it's been mentioned in passing you could search for it by category - see left hand sidebar.
Also on the subject of The Reading Map, I'd intended to have another map up long before now, but other things have had to take priority.
2. Regular readers most likely already know the genesis and raison d'être of Cornflower Books, but a lot of authors and publishers who contact me seem to be under the impression that this is solely a book group site, that everything read and talked about here has been a group read. That is not so! Once a month, the very informal Cornflower Book Group meets on these pages to talk about a book, one that has been announced a few weeks beforehand. Anyone is welcome to join in, and there is no commitment to read all or even most of the books we cover as you can dip in one month and dip out the next as you wish - by the way, I hope to post our November title later today. Apart from that monthly group discussion, everything else on the site, with the exception of some miscellaneous items, is to do with my own reading, whether that is a book I've taken from my own shelves, one I'm reading for a review or article commissioned by a periodical, or something I've been sent by a publisher or author in the hope that I may care to feature it here.
If you have a question relating to the above or any other aspect of the site, please ask!
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