Wednesday, the 28th of October, and time for Shelf Control once again! Shelf Control is a weekly feature hosted by Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies, and celebrates the books waiting to be read on your TBR piles/mountains. To participate, all you do is pick a book from your TBR pile, and write a post about it--what…
Book Review: Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel
This book is more the story of Galileo than his daughter, but anchored for the most part around the correspondence between the two, or rather what has survived of it which is only her letters to him but not his to her (These I think were destroyed by her order because of the controversy surrounding…
Book Review: Pompeii by Robert Harris
This is a piece of historical fiction with a mix of mostly fictional but also some real historical figures set in the backdrop of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Marcus Attilius Primus is a young engineer sent to take charge of the Aqua Augusta, one of the largest and most complex aqueduct…
Shelf Control #110: The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith
Wednesday, the 21st of October, and time again for Shelf Control! Shelf Control is a weekly feature hosted by Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies, and celebrates the books waiting to be read on your TBR piles/mountains. To participate, all you do is pick a book from your TBR pile, and write a post about it--what it's…
The Name is Strange #FictionalCharacters
Photo by Gabby K on Pexels.com October is the month for things strange, eerie and spooky, and in our reads too, we tend to pick up the mysterious or something with monsters, ghouls, and vampires aplenty (or even a few). Last year I had compiled a short list of some of my favourite spooky/scary reads…
#Review: Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer #Childrensfiction #Magic #Fairies #mastercriminals
The first of the series of the same name, I read this the first time some years ago, but having more or less completely forgotten it, I decided to revisit. Picking this up again, just like previously, I loved the gold cover with the lock on it—the fairies’ book—with the mysterious writing in code. Artemis…
Shelf Control #109: The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson #Childrensfiction
Wednesday, the 14th of October, and time for Shelf Control once again! Shelf Control is a weekly feature hosted by Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies, and celebrates the books waiting to be read on your TBR piles/mountains. To participate, all you do is pick a book from your TBR pile, and write a post about it--what…
#Repost: #Review: Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Once again this week (another busy one for me), I'm sharing an old review of a Classic, Vanity Fair, from 2018 when I reread it with a Goodreads group. The story of two young girls, Amelia Sedley and Becky Sharp from very different stations in life, who leave school together to start their lives. Both…
#Review: Heartstone by C.J. Sansom #historicalfiction #mystery #MatthewShardlake
The fifth of the series featuring Matthew Shardlake and set in Tudor England. This one is set in 1545 in turbulent times, for England is at war and the French are expected to arrive at any moment with an army and fleet of ships much larger than the Spanish Armada. And Portsmouth is where they…
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