The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Remembrance of Earth’s Past : book 1 Translated by Ken Liu Set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, a secret...
3 March 2016
RIP Lady Mew
Those of you who have been with this blog for years, back before I only really put up reviews might recall...
27 February 2016
A matter of oaths by Helen S. Wright
Available for free from the author’s website : http://www.arkessian.com/ The patrolship Bhattya is looking for a new member of staff, and...
27 February 2016
The Children Act by Ian McEwan
Does religious belief outweigh the fight for survival? and if the one battling for life is a child, who gets to...
19 February 2016
Mount TBR – Feb 2016
Jones, Eliza Henry – In the quiet rec’d by Pam – Book Crazy (a Book group I’m in) “I usually avoid...
18 February 2016
SPQR : a history of ancient Rome by Mary Beard
The Roman Empire still holds quite a sway in modern imaginations and culture. Gladiator and the tv show Rome are only...
14 February 2016
Alias by Michael Bendis
Jessica Jones was once a costumed superhero, flying around, saving the day. But she gave all that up, now she works...
20 January 2016
Hild by Nicola Griffith
Book 1 of The Light of the World trilogy. The world is always changing, but Britain in the seventh century was...
17 January 2016
Mount TBR – January 2016
Graeber, David – Debt: the first 5,000 years : rec’d by pharm on Metafilter : “he writes about the way societies...
16 January 2016
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes #1, available on gutenberg. In 1881, after returning from Afghanistan Doctor John Watson is in need of rest and...
16 January 2016
Happy New Year
Hope every one’s new year celebrations went well. I still don’t do resolutions, at least not at this time of the...
2 January 2016
The enchanted by Rene Denfeld
ISBN : 9780297870517 When I hear death row I usually don’t think “enchanted”, and I usually don’t look for books set...
2 January 2016