My thanks to Harper Collins UK and NetGalley for a review copy of this one. This is the second of the Immortals series (my review of book 1 is here) by Tamora Pierce. The one opens with the wolves that Daine once hunted with trying to reach her and thinking over the news they’ve received…
Shelf Control #23: Emily Fox-Seton
Wednesday again, and time for another Shelf Control post. Shelf Control is a weekly feature hosted by Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies, and celebrates the books waiting to be read on your TBR pile. All you do to participate is pick a book from your TBR pile and write a post about it. And link back to the…
Bookquotes: Quotes from Books (32)
Source: Window & Grove (photographer) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons "What's done cannot be undone." --William Shakespeare, Macbeth
The Shakespeare Project: Macbeth Act III
The Shakespeare Project is simply me reading Shakespeare and writing about it, act by act. My introductory post about it is here. This of course, as you can see from the title is my third post on Macbeth. The first two, on Act I and II, respectively, are here and here. Please note that these…
Review: Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce
My thanks to Harper Collins UK and NetGalley for a review copy of this one. While I’d heard of Tamora Pierce’s books, I didn’t really know what genre she wrote in, but when I noticed these books on NetGalley, and the description, a fantasy which involved a girl who could communicate with animals, I decided…
Shelf Control #22
Shelf Control is a weekly feature hosted by Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies, and appears every Wednesday. This feature is about celebrating the books waiting to be read on your TBR pile. To participate, all one does is picks a book from their TBR and writes a post about it. This is my twenty-second time participating! My pick…
October Lazy Wrap Up
We're two-thirds of the way through november and I still haven't gotten down to writing my wrap-up post for October mostly because I keep feeling too lazy to do it, at least not the slightly detailed one that I try and do every month. So, I've decided to take the lazy way out and simply…
Bookquotes: Quotes from Books(31)
"We are always trying to make time go at a different pace, as if it were an obstinate pony. Perhaps we should do better to let it amble along as it wishes,without taking much notice of it." --Elspeth Huxley, The Flame Trees of Thika (1959) Image source: Pexels
Review: Will the Real Carolyn Keene Please Stand Up
My thanks to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for a review copy of this book. Inmiddle school at one point my entire (almost, anyway) reading comprised ofNancy Drew. The library that I went to back then had all the different series--theoriginal books, the files, even the Dana Girls books, and I would issue acouple (or more) each…
Review: All These Beautiful Strangers by Elizabeth Klehfoth
My thanks to NetGalley and Penguin Random House Children’s UK for a review copy of this book. This young adult mystery is the story of Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Calloway, the daughter of a real estate mogul who attends a posh prep school, Knollwood Preparatory.She has just received an invitation to be inducted into the very secret…
Literary Potpourri 