Galatea by Madeline Miller
Thanks to Andi’s review of The Song of Achilles I learned that Miller had a new short story out. So off I popped to by it. Based on the Greek myth...
23 August 2013
Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein
It is 1944 and American pilot Rose Justice is working in England, she has joined the ATA and is hard at work transporting planes for the RAF, and occasionally flying important...
13 August 2013
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Sethe and her daughter Denver live in number 124. Denver’s older brothers have left home. Baby Suggs, her grandmother has died. It is just the mother and her daughter, and the...
9 August 2013
The conjuring dir. by James Wan
Based on the true story. Or so they say. In the 1970s Roger and Carolyn Perron move into a new home with their five daughters. It’s a little run down, needs...
7 August 2013
The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
Siss is on her way through the dark evening to meet Unn. They have been going to school together ever since Unn came to live with her Auntie, but this is...
2 August 2013
To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Ramsay wants to go to the lighthouse. His mother says that yes, of course they can go tomorrow, weather permitting. His father disagrees. The weather will not permit it, he asserts, they will not go to the lighthouse.
Much of this novel revolves around the one afternoon and evening before this proposed trip to the lighthouse. The Ramsay family, maternal and magnificent mother, needy professor father and all eight children are staying in their holiday home in the Isle of Skye. With them are a number of other guests, Lily Briscoe the painter. William Banks, Augustus Carmichael, and Charles Tansey.
16 July 2013
On a red station, drifting by Aliette de Bodard
Ever since she arrived on Prosper Station Quyen has been welcomed by the Honoured Ancestress, the artificial intelligence that runs the station. Now that her husband has been called away to...
21 April 2013
Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed
Book one of The Crescent Moon Kingdoms In the city of Dhamsawaat Doctor Abdullah Makhslood is the last real ghul hunter left. He and his assistant Raseed have destroyed many ghuls...
15 April 2013
The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan
Book three of The Wheel of Time spoiler warning in effect for this and *previous* titles in the series. At the end of book two Rand proclaimed himself the Dragon Reborn,...
16 December 2012
Sorry by Zoran Drvenkar
translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside. Seeing a couple break-up in public Kris goes over to apologise to the woman. He tells her that her ex is sorry for what...
5 July 2012
A local habitation by Seanan McGuire
An October Daye novel #2 A another reread for this year’s OUaT challenge, originally read for the Once Upon a Time VI challenge October Daye is a changeling. Her mother is...
25 May 2012
Code name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
reread 24th Sept 2018 for my bookclub. And on rereading I still really enjoyed this book. I still think that some of it is a little forced, and the first person...
10 May 2012
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