Writing Friday Reviews is hard work, and sometime I run out of things to review.  Besides, they can’t be that interesting for those of you who don’t live in NZ and can’t visit the stores I blog about. So, I’m going to break things up by doing book reviews/recommendations/musings on Friday.  Not the usual book reviews, but reviews of old, historical, and often quite obscure books. This weeks book isn’t so obscure: it made a list of the 100 most beloved English books, but it is historical, and is well worth reading. I Capture the Castle is (as I like to say in my brightest schoolmarm voice) “a bittersweet coming of age tale about a young woman discovering the joys and pitfalls of love and life.” Please don’t hold that against it! It’s also a beautifully detailed snapshot of English rural life in the 1930’s, and of the peculiar lines that were drawn between the classes in an age when social status was all about your family, and when even the upper class could be …