The cat who walked a thousand miles by Kij Johnson
Read it online at Tor. reread in April, 2018 and loved it just as much. A long time ago in Japan, when cats were new there, an earthquake shook Small Cat’s...
12 April 2018
The river bank by Kij Johnson
A sequel to Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows There are two main reasons I wanted to read this book. First off it is a book by Kij Johnson. Second...
3 April 2018
The wind in the willows by Kenneth Grahame
It’s fairly impossible for me to be objective about The Wind in the Willows. I’m not sure if I’ve ever read the whole book before, but I certainly remember many extracts...
28 February 2018
The only harmless great thing by Brooke Bolander
I can’t remember where I first say mention of The only harmless great thing, and I never noted it down on Mount TBR, so I’m guessing it was sometime during that...
31 January 2018
The Last family in England by Matt Haig
Also published as The Labrador Pact. I really had no idea what to expect from this book, it was simply sitting with the returns at the library and looked vaguely interesting....
21 August 2017
The trumpet of the swan by E.B. White
ISBN: 0140362746 Sam Beaver is eleven years old when out exploring a Canadian swamp he comes across a bird’s nest, a Trumpeter Swan’s nest to be specific, and in it are...
3 June 2010
The underneath by Kathi Appelt
Author: Kathi Apelt
This is the story of an abandoned cat, an old hound dog who becomes her friend and her kittens, and the family they become. But it is also a tale of old Grandmother Moccasin, a shape-chaning lemia, who is trapped in jar and by her own anger and resentment at her betrayal, as she sees it, by those she loved. And through its blending of myth and floklore it is the perfect fit for my Once Upon a Time reading list. It is also a children’s book, so it shouldn’t take you to long to get through. Although that does not mean that this doesn’t have darkness.
19 April 2010
We3 by Frank Quitely, Grant Morrison
ISBN: 1401204953 I heard about this comic over at The Woolamaloo Gazette, and when I took a look on the forbiddenplanet site it was quite cheap around nine euro I think,...
6 July 2005
Duncton Wood by Michael Horwood
ISBN: 0099443007 Don’t be put off by the fact that this is a book about moles, because it a great story of love, hate, violence, forgiveness and courage. A re-read for...
7 May 2004
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