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 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
The unwomanly face of war by Svetlana Alexievich
translated into English by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky When I saw this mentioned in some magazine or other I had to order it. I was vaguely aware of the Russian...
7 February 2018
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer
January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find...
1 April 2017
King Kong dir. by Peter Jackson
Rewatched 19th March 2017 – Originally watched December 2005 [imdb_movie_detail title=”King Kong” detail=”plot”] So before going to see the new King Kong film I figured I may as well take a...
19 March 2017
A Monster Calls [based on the book] by Patrick Ness dir. by J.A. Bayona
The monster does not come walking often. This time it comes to Connor, and it asks for the one thing Connor cannot bring himself to do. Tell the truth. This is...
10 January 2017
Maybe a fox by Alison McGhee, Kathi Appelt
Into thin air, Sylvie goes missing, and as Jules stumbles in grief, a fox cub is born. A shadow fox, spirit and animal in one. From the minute the cub opens...
20 December 2016
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
Wayfarers ; #2 Lovelace was once merely a ship’s artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has no memory of...
31 October 2016
Pax by Sara Pennypacker
Grieving the loss of his mother Peter discovered an orphaned fox cub and took him in. Ever since then he and Pax have become almost inseparable. But now war is coming....
17 March 2016
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
A man called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Ove is a man who knows what is right, and what is wrong. The rules are there for a reason, and just because every body else in society seems to have...
4 September 2015
The day we disappeared by Lucy Robinson
Another one from Mount TBR, recommended by Ellie of Curiosity killed the Bookworm. Kate is running away from her life. The stress of her life in Dublin has prompted some sort...
2 May 2015
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