January 2019 Mount TBR update
The latest additions : Hunger makes the wolf by Alex Wells – rec’d by KJ Charles, although checking my list I’ve already added this one. Way back 2017 Liz Burke’s review...
13 January 2019
Tin Man by Sarah Winman
My book club chose this for the January meeting, and although I hadn’t even started it when the book club met at the beginning of the month I thought I’d give...
13 January 2019
Guestpost – My little red reviewer
I’m delighted to host Andrea Johnson for her guestpost on “I blog to share the joy”. Andrea blogs at https://littleredreviewer.wordpress.com and is currently running a kickstarter for a print book of...
11 January 2019
Merry midwinter by Gillian Monks
A better time to read this book would probably be October or November as it is all about winter celebrations. But I’m still glad I read it, even if I’m pretty...
6 January 2019
The Thing About Ghost Stories by Naomi Kritzer
Available online – Uncanny Magazine Issue 25 Why do we tell ghost stories, or read or listen to them? Maybe you believe in ghosts, maybe you don’t, maybe you want to....
3 January 2019
Happy New Year
That’s another year over and done with. And in many ways I’m thinking people are delighted to see the back of 2018 as it certainly wasn’t great for a lot of...
1 January 2019
Swordheart by T. Kingfisher
I loved this book. I pretty much read it in one sitting, with occasional breaks for a cup of tea and taking the dogs outside. It is wonderful. It is a...
29 December 2018
from Indigenous directors discuss the “savages” in the Coens’ latest western
What’s hard is these stories take up the majority of the space. They get on the most screens. They’re the ones we’re most familiar with. So we don’t watch and think,...
8 December 2018
November round up
Well, I’ve been terrible bad at the blogging in November. But the one book I reviewed was a great book, so I’d highly recommend you give Us against you a try,...
3 December 2018
from Eggshells by Caitriona Lally
Her world is full of children and dings and action verbs, but I’m uncomfortable with verbs; they expect too much.
2 December 2018
Eggshells by Caitriona Lally
I first noticed Eggshells when it arrived at work, with those hints about changelings and fairy tale echoes. But I didn’t pick it up at the time. It was only more...
2 December 2018
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