Wednesday, the 30th 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: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog #Dewithon22
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog is a short volume of ten stories, all somewhat autobiographical, by Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas. This is a pick for for Paula’s #Dewithon22, and my almost-last-minute substitute for my original pick, a volume of fairy tales, which shall have to be read another time. (This…
Book Review: Junga the Dancing Yeti Meets Heidi by Stephen Tako (author) and Peter Guellerud (illustrator)
My thanks to author Stephen Tako and BookTasters for a review copy of this book. Junga the Dancing Yeti Meets Heidi is the second of a series of picture books for young children (4–7) that touches upon topics like difference and bullying, and conveys important messages about the right way of doing things in the…
Book Review: The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis #Narniathon21
The Silver Chair (1953) is the fourth of the Chronicles of Narnia and the first without the Pevensie children, which I revisited as part of #Narniathon21 hosted by Chris at Calmgrove. This is once again an adventure/quest story like the immediately previous one, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader but the journey here, in contrast…
Book Review: The Depth of the Lake and the Height of the Sky by Kim Jihyun
My thanks to Floris Books/Ingram Publishing Services and Edelweiss for a review copy of this book. The Depth of the Lake and the Height of the Sky is a beautiful picture book which tells a story, or rather gets one to experience it, entirely through pictures, without a word of text, except a short note…
Book Review: Traitor in the Ice by K.J. Maitland
My thanks to Rachel Quin at Headline for a widget of this book via NetGalley. While a second in series, Traitor in the Ice was my introduction to the Daniel Pursglove series of historical mysteries by K.J. Maitland, a book I found to be an intense and engrossing read with excellent historical detail and atmosphere.…
Shelf Control #177: On the Edge of the Rift by Elspeth Huxley
Wednesday, the 23rd 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, simply pick a book from your TBR pile, and write a post about it--what its about, why…
Book Review: Murder at Primrose Cottage by Merryn Allingham
My thanks to Bookouture and NetGalley for a review copy of this book. Murder in Primrose Cottage is the third in the Flora Steele series of cosy mysteries by Merryn Allingham, which I have been following from the start. While this can be read as a standalone as the mystery is complete and we get…
Shelf Control #176: A School Inspector Calls by Rosie Cavendish
Wednesday, the 16th 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: Behold, Here’s Poison by Georgette Heyer
Behold, Here’s Poison (1936) is the second of Georgette Heyer’s mysteries featuring Superintendent Hannasyde; in these Hemingway, who later features in his own subset of mysteries, is Sergeant. Behold, Here’s Poison opens below-the-stairs in Poplars, where the unpleasant and domineering patriarch Gregory Matthews lives with his older sister, Harriet, widowed sister-in-law, Zoe, and Zoe’s two…
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