The Last Dragon by Jane Yolen, Rebecca Guay
Read for the Once Upon a Time VI challenge Everyone knows that all the dragons are gone. They were killed off years and years ago. Before that they wrecked havoc on...
12 May 2012
Code name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
reread 24th Sept 2018 for my bookclub. And on rereading I still really enjoyed this book. I still think that some of it is a little forced, and the first person...
10 May 2012
A perfect spy by John le Carré
Group read with the Metafilter Book Club Magnus Pym is a British spy. But after the death of his father he suddenly goes awol. His wife doesn’t know where he is,...
9 May 2012
The gathering of the lost dir. by Helen Lowe
Book two of The Wall of Night. Read for the Once Upon a Time VI challenge Read the prologue here Five years have passed since the events of The Heir of...
6 May 2012
Among Others by Jo Walton
Read for the Once Upon a Time VI challenge Many, many moons ago Carl posted his review of this book. And then and there I thought, that sounds interesting. But I...
4 May 2012
Rin Tin Tin by Susan Orlean
The life and legend of the world’s most famous dog While serving during World War I serviceman Lee Duncan came across a little of new born German Shepherd puppies. He took...
21 April 2012
Timeless by Gail Carriger
An Alexia Tarabotti novel, The Parasol Protectorate: Book the Fifth Seeing as this it the fifth, and final, book in this series, knowing anything about the plot probably counts as spoilers...
24 March 2012
The droghte of March …
I should be out walking the dog at the moment. It is a lovely day today, I should be making the most of it. But I haven’t been online all week!...
24 March 2012
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Mabel and Jack have left home and family behind and travelled to Alaska, to the edge of the world, trying to turn the wilderness into a farm that will support them....
19 March 2012
The death of grass by John Christopher
Read for the Not just for Stormtroopers sci-fi challenge It is the 1950s, and a devastating virus is sweeping Asia. It attacks grass, and grass feeds the world. Wheat is grass....
8 March 2012
Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
Joe Spork is mild mannered clockmaker. He wns and runs a shop fixing clockwork devices, from clocks to Victorian dirty toys. He doesn’t make a profit, in fact, he barely scrapes...
5 March 2012
The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary by Ken Liu
I recently posted a link to some of the nebula nominees that are available to read online. And today I decided to read one, so at random i clicked a link...
25 February 2012