The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan
Also published as Sea-Hearts Misskaella isn’t as pretty and slim as her sisters, but as she grows she discovers that she has a power. She has an answer to their endless...
20 February 2012
Glister by John Burnside
Teenage boys are going missing in Innertown. Where they go and what happens to them, nobody knows. Some say that they have runaway, escaping the town with its pollution, disease, death...
19 February 2012
The best thing by Margo Lanagan
Mel is not having a good year at school. Her friends have turned on her, and her boyfriend one day stopped talking to her, became her ex over night and hasn’t...
17 January 2012
A summer of drowning by John Burnside
It is summer time on the island of Kvaloya, the time of the midnight sun. And Mats Sigfridsson has just drowned. Soon after his brother Harald also drowns. How could they...
4 January 2012
Stray by Rachel Vincent
Okay, first off the cover to this is awful. Really, it is. And second of all, I did have huge problems with this book. But I’ll get to them later, first...
20 December 2011
The hunger games by Suzanne Collins
Ever since Katniss’ father died in a mining accident she has been the one to take care of her family. Her mother’s depression left her unable to care for either of...
1 December 2011
Dark Jenny by Alex Bledsoe
Sitting in Angelina’s Tavern, Eddie LaCrosse’s winter evening is suddenly disturbed by a delivery. The delivery of a coffin to be precise. Obviously this piques the interest of the other tavern...
10 November 2011
Wall of days by Alastair Bruce
On an island, all alone, the narrator, Bran, lives out his exile. He has been here ten years, time carefully marked out. He is kept busy each day by the struggle...
31 October 2011
The song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
I seem to be reading a lot of myths, and myth inspired fiction, at the moment. Last it was Norse myths, and now I’m on to Greek myths, and the tale...
29 October 2011
The Lantern (group read, week 3) by Deborah Lawrenson
This is the final week of our group read of The Lantern, and it was a really good experience. First off because I don’t think I would have read this one...
24 October 2011
The Lantern (group read, week 2) by Deborah Lawrenson
For week 2 we read parts 3 & 4. If you haven’t read these bits of the book then there are spoilers ahead. Questions this week are from Kailana; The title...
17 October 2011
The Lantern (group read, week 1) by Deborah Lawrenson
When Carl first mentioned this group read I said I wouldn’t join in. I’m still on a no buying books kick so I knew I’d have to get it from the...
13 October 2011
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