A little yuletide murder by Donald Bain, Jessica Fletcher
Murder She Wrote : #11 I’m not quite sure how to start with this one. I mean, Murder She Wrote… Look, you’ll have to blame Himself as he is slightly obsessed...
2 January 2021
Books/Films that give part or all of the story from the point of view of a female-presenting character
Books/Films that give part or all of the story from the point of view of a female-presenting character
We begin at the end by Chris Whitaker
This is one of those books I would never have picked up if it hadn’t been a book club selection, and readily available from the library when I was looking for...
2 January 2021
The art of dying by Ambrose Parry
This was the latest book chosen for my book club read. I don’t think any of us were aware it is actually the second book in a series when we picked...
30 August 2020
The prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
A year or so ago I caught The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie starring Maggie Smith on the telly. It was a very good film, I’d highly recommend it, and so...
8 August 2020
The little snake by A. L. Kennedy
I had no idea what this was about when I first picked it up. It was mentioned to me in passing just I finished a book and because of the wonders...
31 May 2020
The machine stops by E. M. Forster
I came across mention of this story over on Metafilter and, while I have heard of Forster I’ve never read1 any of their works so I thought I’d give this a...
30 May 2020
Sixteenth Watch by Myke Cole
I’ve been meaning to read a Myke Cole book for a while now. His name is one that’s been out there floating around as an interesting author, and I’ve seen a...
30 April 2020
Assassin’s Fate by Robin Hobb
Fitz and the Fool ; Book 3 The Realm of the Elderlings #16 So the trilogy comes to an end. And I guess that fact that I’ve read these books one...
14 April 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
Fool’s Assassin by Robin Hobb
The Fitz and the Fool ; book 1 Realm of the Elderlings #14 Okay, so years and years ago, so many years ago in fact that it was before this blog...
2 April 2020
White women LOL by Curtis Sittenfeld
Read it online at The Oprah Magazine A short story showing that racism is a whole lot more complicated than your stance on white supremacists. I found this a really interesting...
7 January 2020
The poison song by Jen Williams
The Winnowing flame trilogy ; book3 If you’re into your fantasy fiction being epic, your heroes being full of humour and violence, and your bad guys out to utterly destroy the...
23 September 2019
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