Network effect by Martha Wells
The Murderbot Diaries #5 I love Murderbot! and all the robot pals. Also don’t be put off by this being the fifth in a series and thinking that sounds like a...
28 May 2020
Fool’s Quest by Robin Hobb
The Fitz and the Fool ; book 2 The Realm of the Elderlings #15 As I loved The Fool’s Assassin as soon as I finished it I straight away borrowed the...
9 April 2020
1917 dir. by Sam Mendes
I wasn’t too sure what I was going to make of this film before I saw it. War films can be very hit or miss with me, and I’d come across...
12 January 2020
A brightness long ago by Guy Gavriel Kay
It has been over ten years since I’ve read a Kay book! Or at least the last post on the blog reviewing a Kay book is more than ten years old,...
6 September 2019
The calculating stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
The Lady Astronaut ; 1 I’ve heard a lot of positive feedback about Mary Robinette Kowal, but the only thing by her I’ve ever read is a short story, and that...
31 July 2019
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
It has been years since I’ve read a book by Novik. I read her Temeraire way back in 2006, and was a big fan until I sort of drifted out around...
14 July 2019
Things a bright girl can do by Sally Nicholls
This was one of a number of books mentioned at my last book club meeting, and as I was heading to the hairdressers I realised I didn’t have a book with...
17 June 2019
The war that killed Achilles by Caroline Alexander
The Illiad is one of those books pretty much everyone has heard of, and most have an idea of the storyline, but not as many have actually read it. I did...
16 May 2019
So lucky by Nicola Griffith
Handheld Modern ; 2 I’ve really enjoyed everything I’ve read by Griffith, and she has written in a wide variety of genres, science, historical, and mystery, and that’s just the books...
20 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
Us against you by Fredrik Backman
originally published as Vi mot er; translated by Neil Smith Beartown ; book 2 It has been a while since I read this. I think I finished it at the start...
21 November 2018
Exit strategy by Martha Wells
Murderbot diaries ; 4 I love these books. They just feel so warm and comforting, like a hug, despite the fact that the narrator describes themselves as a murderbot and there...
17 October 2018
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