Dragon’s Blood by Jane Yolen
Book 1 in The Pit Dragon trilogy Austar IV started life as a prison planet, over the generations and years it has evolved into a deeply segregated, almost feudal society. Jakkin...
8 November 2015
To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee
I would guess that almost everyone reading this blog is familiar, to some degree, with Harper Lee’s To kill a mockingbird. The classic story of a good man (Atticus) in a...
4 November 2015
Wake of Vultures by Lila Bowen
The Shadow #1 Nettie Lonesome was found as a baby and taken in by the Lonesome family. Which is to say used by Mam & Pap Lonesome to work and work...
2 November 2015
The house of shattered wings by Aliette de Bodard
Dominion of the Fallen ; 1 Once one of the most powerful Houses in Paris Silverspires is in decline. Its founder, Morningstar, is missing. Selene, his last pupil, has taken over....
26 October 2015
Anna Who by Bernadette Leach
So last week on twitter I spotted this tweet : Anna Who for me – and I know @oneilllo is a fan too! I'd love to see some of the Attic...
10 October 2015
Between the world and me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates is a name that has floated around me for a while now. Often in discussions on Metafilter about racism and America and what it is to be black, or...
7 October 2015
The rest of us just live here by Patrick Ness
Mikey is an ordinary teenager. About to finish at high school, worried and excited about the changes college will bring. He isn’t like the indie kids, you know, the ones with...
3 October 2015
Jane Eyre’s Sisters by Jody Gentian Bower
Don’t you just love it when you pick up a book at random thinking it looks vaguely interesting and then you devour it? That is what happened me with this book....
28 September 2015
When we were animals by Joshua Gaylord
In a small town in America the teenagers run wild every full moon for three days while their parents, and everyone else locks themselves inside, safe. For three nights the teenagers...
27 September 2015
The Genius of Dogs by Brian Hare, Vanessa Woods
“Brian Hare, dog researcher, evolutionary anthropologist, and founder of the Duke Canine Cognition Center, and Vanessa Woods offer revolutionary new insights into dog intelligence and the interior lives of our smartest...
19 September 2015
Mount TBR – September
Only two to add this month : Gephart, Donna – Death by Toilet paper – rec’d by Flamingo house loved, loved, loved, loved, loved Death By Toilet Paper and didn’t expect...
18 September 2015
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
Part of my RIP reading Carolyn is a librarian. Or at least that is word her Father uses. That is the term she uses for herself. But what she does is...
13 September 2015