Random Acts of Kindness Part 1 by Victoria Walters My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was a set of the first four chapters of this book that I received through Netgalley.In what promises to be a delightful and heart-warming read, this set of chapters introduces us to Abbie Morgan, a twenty-eight-year old Londoner heading…
Shadows of Days Past
I didn’t think I’d be returning to writing about poetry quite so soon, but when reading Wives and Daughters (which I’m reading in serial with a group on goodreads), I found a reference to John Gilpin (Cowper’s The Diverting History of John Gilpin), which I was all set to revisit during the week and write…
Fay the performer, and Selina the artist!
I haven’t been doing very much reading this week though earlier in the week I finished All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor which I absolutely loved (my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1716276635?book_show_action=false), and for the rest am part way through Sophie’s World (which I had started last year but stopped part way in because of reading challenges and things)…
Winter in Verse
Before I even start, I’d like to say that I’m not so much a poetry person―don’t read much of it, have written just one for school, so any comments or observations of mine are pretty much those of a layperson―and pretty literal. That said though, I have been trying time and again to read a…
Findouters Challenge: A robbery, lots of food, and some well-deserved payback
The Mystery of Holly Lane by Enid Blyton Findouters Challenge: Book 11. It’s Easter holidays again, and Bets and Pip are preparing to meet Fatty at the station as Fatty’s school breaks a week later than their own. Quite sure that Fatty will be in disguise again, the children get into a bit of a…
Other People’s Bookshelves
Exploring other people’s bookshelves is something I find fun―I like looking at books of course and one never knows what new author or book one might find that way. When I opened my account on shelfari (now of course, goodreads), I got a chance to explore virtually and did end up finding plenty of new…
Review: Kartikeya
Kartikeya: The Destroyer's Son by Anuja Chandramouli My rating: 4 of 5 stars My thanks to the author for a review copy of this book.This was a book that I was interested to read because its focus is Kartikeya, the older (though in some accounts younger) son of Shiv, the god of destruction and his…
December 2017: Race to Finish My Reading Challenge
For the last couple of years at least, December has been the most I read the most, partly because I have time off of course, but also because I’ve been finding myself falling a little far behind the number of books I challenged myself to read at the beginning of the year. I also end…
Literary Potpourri 