Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo
DC Icons ; 1 Pretty much everyone is familiar with Wonder Woman, right? Diana Princess of Themyscira, amazon and superhero. Well, count me as one of those who is familiar with...
4 November 2017
October’s reading
I think if I had to pick just one to recommend I’d have to go with The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart by Stephanie Burgis because it was just such a...
4 November 2017
Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear
Eternal Sky; 1 Temur’s family are at war. His cousin and his brother have battled over who will get to be the next Khan. There is death all around him. Temur...
28 October 2017
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine by Gail Honeyman
I started reading this book because my book club chose it. I don’t think that I would have picked it up based on the blurb. And at first I thought that...
22 October 2017
The dragon with a chocolate heart by Stephanie Burgis
I never actually added this book to Mount TBR when I saw Ana’s review on The Book Smugglers, but I did mentally make a note of it. And spotted it and...
16 October 2017
Taste of Marrow by Sarah Gailey
River of Teeth ; 2 The events of River of Teeth have left repercussions. Not least of which are the feral hippos! but also the Houndstooth outfit1 have been separated, those...
16 October 2017
The Selkie’s mate by Nicola Davies
Shadows and Light ; 3 That traditional selkie story, where the fisherman finds a selkie, hides the skin and gains a wife have always been a bit ick. I mean, its...
13 October 2017
Triangle by Mac Barnett
One of the great things about working in a library is that you come across books that you usually would have no reason to really look at. Like children’s books, especially...
13 October 2017
Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory
The Amazing Telemachus Family were about to reach dizzying heights of fame and fortune in the 1970s, when a live television magic display went all wrong and they were revealed as...
13 October 2017
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull
Emma Bull is an author I have been meaning to read for a long time. She was one of the first to start the whole sub-genre of urban fantasy. And although...
2 October 2017
September round-up
I think that working in the public sector has led to some bleed through. Stats are a huge part of my job, monthly, quarterly, yearly! All the stats. So here is...
1 October 2017
Pyramids by Terry Pratchett
Discworld series ; #7 I think this might be the first Terry Pratchett book I ever read. I certainly recall reading it, but I don’t think I’ve ever reread it, and...
1 October 2017