Wednesday, the 31st of March, 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…
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Photo by Isabella Mendes on Pexels.com Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.E.M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924)
Book Review: Hyde by Craig Russell
My thanks to Little, Brown Book Group UK and NetGalley for a review copy of this one. This was an exciting, interesting, very dark and also slightly unsettling piece of historical fiction set in Edinburgh, and combines a mystery with psychological aspects and elements of Celtic folklore and the occult. The Hyde of the title…
Shelf Control #132: Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin
Wednesday, the 24th of March, 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: The Custard Corpses by M.J. Porter
My thanks to Books Go Social and NetGalley for a review copy of this one. The Custard Corpses is a historical mystery/police procedural set in the 1940s and involving a cold case. Our story opens with Chief Inspector Sam Mason—not serving in the war due to an injury—who is visited by Rebecca McFarlane whose brother…
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Photo by Markus Winkler on Pexels.com Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.E.M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924)
Book Review: The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
My thanks to Penguin Random House Children’s UK and NetGalley for a review copy of this compelling and heart-rending read. Spain in the 1950s, the Spain of General Franco provides the setting for this young adult novel. This was a regime where Franco ruled supreme, those that conformed could get by but those that ‘dared’…
Shelf Control #131: The Menace Within by Ursula Curtiss
Wednesday, the 17th of March (Happy St Paddy's Day to those who celebrate), 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, simply pick a book from your TBR pile, and…
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for literature had always been a solace to him, something that the ugliness of facts could not spoil.E.M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924)
Nicholas Nickleby Readalong Week 5 Post #NicholasNickleby2021
Once again, fell behind schedule on this week’s instalment (or rather last week’s instalment) of Nicholas Nickleby for the Nicholas Nickleby readalong on Fanda ClassicLit. (My previous posts on the readalong are here, here, and here). The story so far: In the last instalment, we saw Nicholas leave the Crummles’ theatrical group when Newman Noggs…
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